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The worlds of Back to the future : critical essays on the films

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, 1980- (Editor)
LCCN 2010010463, ISBN 9780786444007 · softcover : alk. paper, ISBN 0786444002 · softcover : alk. paper
publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2010
viii, 264 p.
edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
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Bibliography, Non-fiction literature
Subject
Back to the future (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1985), Back to the future, part II (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1989), Back to the future, part III (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1990), Time travel in motion pictures, Tiden i film, Zeitreise., Time in films

Table of Contents

Introduction : it's about time / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn -- Back to the future : Îdipus as time traveler / Andrew Gordon -- "You space bastard! you killed my pines!" : Back to the future, nostalgia and the suburban dream / Bernice M. Murphy -- "Don't you think it's about time?": Back to the future in black and white / Stephen Matterson -- "There's something very familiar about all this" : generic play and performance in the Back to the future trilogy / Lucy Fife Donaldson -- Bury my heart in Hill Valley, or, the kid who KO'd Liberty Valance / John Exshaw -- Music in flux : musical transformation and time travel in Back to the future / Christine Lee Gengaro -- Back to the Fifties! fixing the future / Elizabeth McCarthy -- "Mom! you look so thin!" : constructions of femininity across the space-time continuum / Katherine Farrimond -- Ronald Reagan and the rhetoric of traveling back to the future : the Zemeckis aesthetic as revisionist history and conservative fantasy / Christopher Justice -- "This is what makes time travel possible" : the generation(s) of revolutionary master signifiers in Back to the future / Michael Williams -- Showdown at the Café '80's: the Back to the future trilogy as Baudrillardian parable / Randy Laist -- "Doing it in style" : the narrative rules of time travel in the Back to the future trilogy / Jennifer Harwood-Smith and Francis Ludlow.

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Contributor and role
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, 1980- (Editor)
Identifier
LCCN 2010010463, ISBN 9780786444007 · softcover : alk. paper, ISBN 0786444002 · softcover : alk. paper
Title resource
The worlds of Back to the future : critical essays on the films
Creative responsibility statement
edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2010
Extent
viii, 264 p.
Note
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
dimensions
23 cm
Classification
PN1997.B1935 (LCC Classification)
control number
12139767