The worlds of Back to the future
Subtitle: critical essays on the films
By: edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.
Contributors: Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha, 1980-
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786444007
Subjects: Back to the future (Motion picture); Back to the future part II (Motion picture); Back to the future part III (Motion picture); Time travel in motion pictures
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : it's about time / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; title: Back to the future : Îdipus as time traveler / Andrew Gordon; title: "You space bastard! you killed my pines!" : Back to the future, nostalgia and the suburban dream / Bernice M. Murphy; title: "Don't you think it's about time?": Back to the future in black and white / Stephen Matterson; title: "There's something very familiar about all this" : generic play and performance in the Back to the future trilogy / Lucy Fife Donaldson; title: Bury my heart in Hill Valley, or, the kid who KO'd Liberty Valance / John Exshaw; title: Music in flux : musical transformation and time travel in Back to the future / Christine Lee Gengaro; title: Back to the Fifties! fixing the future / Elizabeth McCarthy; title: "Mom! you look so thin!" : constructions of femininity across the space-time continuum / Katherine Farrimond; title: Ronald Reagan and the rhetoric of traveling back to the future : the Zemeckis aesthetic as revisionist history and conservative fantasy / Christopher Justice; title: "This is what makes time travel possible" : the generation(s) of revolutionary master Signifiers in Back to the future / Michael Williams; title: Showdown at the Cafe '80's: the Back to the future trilogy as Baudrillardian parable / Randy Laist; title: "Doing it in style" : the narrative rules of time travel in the Back to the future trilogy / Jennifer Harwood-Smith and Francis Ludlow.