Introduction -- Between the television and book publishing industries : anthology writers and their struggle for authorial identities -- Between the television and theater industries : representations of race in Rod Serling's "Noon on doomsday" -- Between the television and motion picture industries : Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" as art cinema -- New strategies for entrepreneurship : Reginald Rose, The defenders, and the 1960s television industry -- A new zone of production? Rod Serling's attempt to redefine the role of the writer in the 1960s television industry
How television writers thwarted the constraints of corporate culture in the 1950s and flourished