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The worlds of Back to the future : critical essays on the films / edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.
- Title
- The worlds of Back to the future : critical essays on the films / edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1997.B1935 W67 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha, 1980-
- Description
- viii, 264 p.; 23 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780786444007 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786444002 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010010463
- OCLC
- 564132794
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library