An edition of The worlds of Back to the future (2010)

The worlds of Back to the future

critical essays on the films

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The worlds of Back to the future
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
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An edition of The worlds of Back to the future (2010)

The worlds of Back to the future

critical essays on the films

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"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.

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The worlds of Back to the future: critical essays on the films
2010, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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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 Cafe '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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Jefferson, N.C

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/72
Library of Congress
PN1997.B1935 W67 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24493580M
ISBN 13
9780786444007
LCCN
2010010463
OCLC/WorldCat
564132794

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