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1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
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Back to the future (Motion picture)
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Back to the future (Motion picture) |
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Back to the future part II (Motion picture)
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Back to the future part II (Motion picture) |
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Back to the future part III (Motion picture)
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Back to the future part III (Motion picture) |
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Time travel in motion pictures.
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Time travel in motion pictures. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. |
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Back to the future (Motion picture) |
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Back to the future part II (Motion picture) |
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Back to the future part III (Motion picture) |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha, 1980-
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Print version: Worlds of Back to the future. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2010 9780786444007 (DLC) 2010010463 (OCoLC)564132794 |
ISBN |
9780786457656 (electronic book) |
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0786457651 (electronic book) |
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9780786444007 (softcover ; alkaline paper) |
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