SAH Commons | Reba Wissner | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/rwissner/activity/ Activity feed for Reba Wissner. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5680713d469554f418cd0c191d134584 Reba Wissner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715868/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 01:37:00 -0500 0 0bc8f9eeeae8e4c5b5d48efafb933ec2 Reba Wissner created the site Reba A. Wissner, Ph.D. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1661222/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 15:15:41 -0400 0 9935397009d81a7309b94cb56587f265 Reba Wissner deposited First Mathematics, Then Music: J. S. Bach, Glenn Gould, and the Evolutionary Supergenius in The Outer Limits' "The Sixth Finger" (1963) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639500/ Fri, 03 May 2019 12:58:13 -0400 In a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits called “The Sixth Finger,”
Gwyllm Griffiths (David McCallum) volunteers for a scientist who has
found a way to advance man’s evolution by over one million years, thereby
creating human supergeniuses with an aptitude for rapid learning and
enhanced mental capacity. The final script was ten minutes too short…[Read more]

]]> 0 079622735dbfb6e165d399b6b0374bf8 Reba Wissner deposited Music for Murder, Machines, and Monsters https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637403/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:33:13 -0400 The re-use of storylines from radio plays on early television was not uncommon; indeed, much of the television programming of the 1950s and early 1960s consisted of repurposed radio scripts. Columbia Presents Corwin ‘Moat Farm Murder’ (Bernard Herrmann, 18 July 1944) was among the many radio programmes from the 1940s that had music featured in The…[Read more]

]]> 0 45a5652b2fe9e554be70a2671ac4a301 Reba Wissner deposited No time like the past: Hearing nostalgia in The Twilight Zone in the group Television Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605801/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:13:07 -0400 One of Rod Serling’s favourite topics of exploration in The Twilight Zone (1959–64) is nostalgia, which pervaded many of the episodes of the series. Although Serling himself often looked back upon the past wishing to regain it, he did, however, understand that we often see things looking back that were not there and that the past is often ide…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2192c5def087df4925c34a84989efb8 Reba Wissner deposited No time like the past: Hearing nostalgia in The Twilight Zone in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605800/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:13:06 -0400 One of Rod Serling’s favourite topics of exploration in The Twilight Zone (1959–64) is nostalgia, which pervaded many of the episodes of the series. Although Serling himself often looked back upon the past wishing to regain it, he did, however, understand that we often see things looking back that were not there and that the past is often ide…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b73c88537b533359c5292c0e38aac2b Reba Wissner deposited No time like the past: Hearing nostalgia in The Twilight Zone https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605752/ Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:37:13 -0400 One of Rod Serling’s favourite topics of exploration in The Twilight Zone (1959–64) is nostalgia, which pervaded many of the episodes of the series. Although Serling himself often looked back upon the past wishing to regain it, he did, however, understand that we often see things looking back that were not there and that the past is often ide…[Read more]

]]> 0 317a8130debb92d3afd749ac8b088be6 Reba Wissner deposited All of Mulberry Street Is a Stage: Representations of the Italian Immigrant Experience Through Community Theater Performances of the Italian-American Sceneggiata in the group Performance Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596821/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:13:41 -0500 During the rise of Italian immigration to the United States between 1870 and 1930, the sceneggiata, a musical theater genre popular in Naples, began its tenure in the theaters located within predominantly Italian neighborhoods of the United States. The sceneggiata revolved around specific Neapolitan songs and was one of the few types of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2d5683cb0ae18e3e660da48114ab5a0 Reba Wissner deposited For Want of a Better Estimate, Let’s Call It the Year 2000: The Twilight Zone and the Aural Conception of a Dystopian Future in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596818/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:13:08 -0500 This paper examines the aural conceptions of futuristic dystopias in episodes of The Twilight Zone, focusing on one specific episode, season five’s “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” I examine how the music director of CBS conceived of the future, aurally representing these episodes as having an affinity with the premise of Brave New World by re…[Read more]

]]> 0 a48bc4a096fb6880f4f90739895cbecf Reba Wissner deposited For Want of a Better Estimate, Let’s Call It the Year 2000: The Twilight Zone and the Aural Conception of a Dystopian Future in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596817/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:13:06 -0500 This paper examines the aural conceptions of futuristic dystopias in episodes of The Twilight Zone, focusing on one specific episode, season five’s “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” I examine how the music director of CBS conceived of the future, aurally representing these episodes as having an affinity with the premise of Brave New World by re…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c44b4b5cb140767d61d0a493b9616b3 Reba Wissner deposited I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596815/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:12:49 -0500 Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone, “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959). Waxman, composer of the film, was approached to compose a score for a television episode…[Read more]

]]> 0 f688a7a49a123994a76277327f0036e6 Reba Wissner deposited I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596814/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:12:48 -0500 Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone, “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959). Waxman, composer of the film, was approached to compose a score for a television episode…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa4cebc9e94fe73b5bd2a4e9edcfd032 Reba Wissner deposited The Face That Launched A Hundred Arias: Helen of Troy and the Reversal of a Reputation in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596663/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:47:30 -0500 One of most enigmatic figures in mythology is Helen of Troy. The portrait that ancient authors and scholars alike paint is that of a woman with an uncertain history and a name marred by generations, both contemporary with her life, as well as those contemporary with ours. Each of these stories has an agenda in that each writer means to portray…[Read more]

]]> 0 96702bd2617cbc600a2e13310a690960 Reba Wissner deposited I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596661/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:44:48 -0500 Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir
Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone,
“The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959). Waxman, composer of the film, was approached to compose a score for
a television episode…[Read more]

]]> 0 e45d2bef14629ba393b30952444b7d24 Reba Wissner deposited For Want of a Better Estimate, Let’s Call It the Year 2000: The Twilight Zone and the Aural Conception of a Dystopian Future https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596660/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:41:51 -0500 This paper examines the aural conceptions of futuristic dystopias in episodes
of The Twilight Zone, focusing on one specific episode, season five’s “Number
Twelve Looks Just Like You.” I examine how the music director of CBS conceived
of the future, aurally representing these episodes as having an affinity with
the premise of Brave New World…[Read more]

]]> 0 98433c78eaf36baffd408c528fc8f58b Reba Wissner deposited To sleep perchance to sing: the suspension of disbelief in the prologue to Francesco Cavalli's Gli Amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (1640) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596657/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:37:17 -0500 In the newly popularized genre of opera during the seventeenth century, the allegorical
prologue was commonly used as a preface from about 1600 to 1670, with
no fewer than 98 opera prologues composed throughout Venice during this period.
These prologues, often sung by allegories and/or characters from myth, set the
stage for the proceeding…[Read more]

]]> 0 df25a5798477f602647af7703eb6f63c Reba Wissner deposited All of Mulberry Street Is a Stage: Representations of the Italian Immigrant Experience Through Community Theater Performances of the Italian-American Sceneggiata https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596656/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:33:18 -0500 During the rise of Italian immigration to the United States between 1870 and 1930, the sceneggiata, a musical theater genre popular in Naples, began its tenure in the theaters located within predominantly Italian neighborhoods of the United States. The sceneggiata revolved around specific Neapolitan songs and was one of the few types of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c62ab4abd06fde0b397efe14c15b1986 Reba Wissner's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596637/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:59:42 -0500 0