Time travel in popular media : essays on film, television, literature and video games
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Time travel in popular media : essays on film, television, literature and video games
McFarland & Company, Inc., c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314), appendices, and index
Includes webliography and filmography
Contents of Works
- Introduction : contexts and concepts of time in the mass media / Matthew Jones and Joan Ormrod
- Philosophy and theory. Contemporary philosophy / Nikk Effingham
- Time travel and temporal paradox : Deleuze, the "time-image" and Russian ark / David Deamer
- "I flung myself into futurity" : H.G. Wells's Deleuzian time machine / Michael Starr
- To boldly go where no man has gone before : complexity science and the Star trek reboot / Matthew Kimberley and Jason N. Dittmer
- Control dramas and play time : tales of redemption and the temporal fantasist / Jacqueline Furby
- Culture and history. Experiments in time : the silent films of Cecil B. DeMille / David Blanke
- A spasso nella commedia : temporal journeying through the transitional landscape of Italian film comedy of the 1980s and 1990s / Giacomo Boitani
- Remembering the past for the future : the function of museums in science fiction time travel narratives / Dolly Jørgensen
- Narrative and media forms. "Harmonious synchronicity" and eternal darkness : temporal displacement in video games / Paul Booth
- "I belong to the future" : timeslip drama as history production in The Georgian house and A traveler in time / Victoria Byard
- "Who knows about the future? perhaps only the dead" : configuring the trans-temporal timespan of Planet of the apes as a transmedia saga / Matthew Freeman
- Tropes, narratives and generic cycles. Time travel and the "afterlife" of the western / Pete Falconer
- Temporal prosthetics and beautiful pain : loss, memory and nostalgia in Somewhere in time, The butterfly effect and Safety not guaranteed / Travis l. Martin and Owen R. Horton
- Try again : the time loop as a mystery-solving process in Save the date and Source code / Victor Navarro-Remesal and Shaila Garcøa-Cataløn
- A stitch in time : film costume as a narrative tool beyond time linearity / Elena Trencheva and Sofia Pantouvaki
- Case studies. "Downwards is the only way forwards : dream space, parallel time and selfhood in Inception / Charles Burnetts
- "A world without history" : fate, fantasy and temporal fractures in The X-files / Eleanor Dobson and Rosalind Fursland
- The therapeutic value of fantasy revealed through the colors of Pleasantville / Elissa Nelson
- Woody Allen's (post)modern nostalgia games : the critical rhetoric of cinema as time machine / Dario llinares
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Description
Something has happened to time. In recent years the media have produced numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and videogames that bend, shatter and rebuild the clock. Characters slip backwards, jump forwards and slide sideways in time more than ever before.
What caused this fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one's own era? How do different media formats tell these stories and what does this reveal about their relationship to time itself? This book, the first to address the genre across a range of media, responds to these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. From well-known classics (Doctor Who and The Terminator) to little-known gems (The Georgian House and Save the Date), and from major American movies (Back to the Future, Inception and Source Code) to indie games (Braid) and Italian comedy cinema (Superfantozzi), the texts discussed represent a broad cross-section of the genre.
Tracing time travel from its roots in antiquity and fairytales to the present day, the voices present in this collection make an important contribution to emerging debates about the stories we tell ourselves of falling through the cracks of time.
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