Now and Then We Time Travel

Visiting Pasts and Futures in Film and Television

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in science fiction and fantasy.Plot synopses and credits are listed for films and TV series from England, Canada, the UK and Japan, as well as for TV and films from elsewhere in the world. Tropes and plot elements are highlighted.The author discusses philosophical questions about time travel, such as the logic of timelines, causality (what's to keep time-travelers from jumping back and correcting every mistake?) and morality (if you correct a mistake, are you still guilty of it?).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-01-11
Mått:178 x 254 x 14 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786496792

Utforska kategorier

Television inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

A former Florida reporter, Fraser A. Sherman has contributed articles to such publications as Newsweek, Boys Life and Movie Marketplace and is the author of four previous film books and more than two dozen published speculative-fiction short stories. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Recensioner i media

“Provides countless examples of films and series centered on time travel...excellent”—ARBA; “A very thorough annotated catalog of a wide range of stories of time travel told through moving images. Sherman has put in lots of hard work and produced a very useful reference that is fun to sample”—SFRA Review.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceOne. A Century of Screen Connecticut YankeesTwo. Time of the Time MachineThree. Enjoying the Exotic: Travel from the Present to Other TimesFour. Bouncing Around Time, Getting Lost and Doing the Time WarpFive. Strange Visitors from Another World: Travel to the Present from Other TimesSix. Changing History: When Time Is Up for GrabsSeven. Shaping the Future by Changing the Past That Is Our PresentEight. If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Changing Personal HistoryNine. Love in a Time of Time TravelTen. Time Cops: Policing the Time Stream (or) Putting Right What Once Went WrongEleven. Déjà Vu All Over Again: Time Loop FilmsAppendicesdelete Appendix I: Film Creditsdelete Appendix II: Television and Direct-to-Video Series Creditsdelete Appendix III: Television Specialsdelete Appendix IV: Films and Television Series with Minor Time Travel Elementsdelete Appendix V: The Rest of the Worlddelete Appendix VI: Interesting Short Filmsdelete Appendix VII: Movies About Parallel Livesdelete Appendix VIII: Time Travel Porn FilmsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex