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Time on TV : narrative time, time travel and time travellers in popular television culture / edited by Lorna Jawett, Kevin Lee Robinson and David Simmons.
- Title
- Time on TV : narrative time, time travel and time travellers in popular television culture / edited by Lorna Jawett, Kevin Lee Robinson and David Simmons.
- Publication
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
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- Description
- x, 181 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- From early examples such as 'Star Trek' and 'Sapphire and Steel' to more contemporary shows including 'Life on Mars' and 'The Vampire Diaries, ' time has frequently been used as a device to allow programme makers to experiment stylistically and challenge established ways of thinking. This book offers readers a range of exciting, accessible, yet intellectually rigourous essays that consider the many and varied ways in which telefantasy shows have explored this subject, providing the reader with a greater understanding of the importance of time to the success of genre on the small screen.
- Series Statement
- Investigating cult TV
- Uniform Title
- Investigating cult TV.
- Alternative Title
- Time on television
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 'Time is a companion ... who goes with us on the journey' : Star Trek, time travel and patterns of narrative history / Lincoln Geraghty -- Reality resets : changing the past in Eureka / Stan Beeler -- Timeslip : putting aside childish things / Pete Boss -- The Primeval anomaly / John Jeffrey -- 'There is a corridor' : Sapphir & steel, Torchwood and the time topography of P.J. Hammond / Kevin Lee Robinson -- 'No one can touch the gene genie' : the past as fantasy space in Life on Mars and Ashes to ashes / Nicola Allen -- Watchmaking in the dark : the intricacy of intimacy in Crime traveller / David Hipple -- 'Centuries of evil ... wacky sidekicks ... yadda, yadda' : vampire television and the conventions of flashback / Lorna Jewett -- Timeless : memory, temporality, and identity in Once upon a time / Gwyneth Peaty -- 'Bonanza was never like this' : Quantum leap and interrogating nostalgia / David Simmons.
- ISBN
- 9781784530136
- 1784530131
- OCLC
- 953807074
- SCSB-10867514
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library