Now and Then We Time Travel

Visiting Pasts and Futures in Film and Television

Fraser A. Sherman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9679-2 (ISBN)

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More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in science fiction and fantasy.

Plot synopses and credits are listed for films and TV series from England, Canada, the UK and Japan, as well as for TV and films from elsewhere in the world. Tropes and plot elements are highlighted.

The author discusses philosophical questions about time travel, such as the logic of timelines, causality (what's to keep time-travelers from jumping back and correcting every mistake?) and morality (if you correct a mistake, are you still guilty of it?).

A former Florida reporter, Fraser A. Sherman has contributed articles to such publications as Newsweek, Boys Life and Movie Marketplace and is the author of four previous film books and more than two dozen published speculative-fiction short stories. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

One. A Century of Screen Connecticut Yankees

Two. Time of the Time Machine

Three. Enjoying the Exotic: Travel from the Present to Other Times

Four. Bouncing Around Time, Getting Lost and Doing the Time Warp

Five. Strange Visitors from Another World: Travel to the Present from Other Times

Six. Changing History: When Time Is Up for Grabs

Seven. Shaping the Future by Changing the Past That Is Our Present

Eight. If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Changing Personal History

Nine. Love in a Time of Time Travel

Ten. Time Cops: Policing the Time Stream (or) Putting Right What Once Went Wrong

Eleven. Déjà Vu All Over Again: Time Loop Films

Appendices

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delete Appendix II: Television and Direct-to-Video Series Credits

delete Appendix III: Television Specials

delete Appendix IV: Films and Television Series with Minor Time Travel Elements

delete Appendix V: The Rest of the World

delete Appendix VI: Interesting Short Films

delete Appendix VII: Movies About Parallel Lives

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Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	22 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	0-7864-9679-7 / 0786496797
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-9679-2 / 9780786496792
Zustand	Neuware