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Title The worlds of Back to the future : critical essays on the films / edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.

Publication Info. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "A critical examination of the cultural, cinematic, and historical contexts of the Back to the Future trilogy, this book provides a multi-focal representation of the trilogy from several inter-disciplinary fields, including philosophy, literature, music, pop culture, and media and gender studies"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : it's about time / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn -- Back to the future : Œdipus 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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Subject Back to the future (Motion picture)
Back to the future (Motion picture)
Back to the future part II (Motion picture)
Back to the future part II (Motion picture)
Back to the future part III (Motion picture)
Back to the future part III (Motion picture)
Time travel in motion pictures.
Time travel in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Back to the future (Motion picture)
Back to the future part II (Motion picture)
Back to the future part III (Motion picture)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha, 1980-
Other Form: Print version: Worlds of Back to the future. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2010 9780786444007 (DLC) 2010010463 (OCoLC)564132794
ISBN 9780786457656 (electronic book)
0786457651 (electronic book)
9780786444007 (softcover ; alkaline paper)