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UNINA9910797685603321 |
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Titolo |
Time travel television : the past from the present, the future from the past / / edited by Sherry Ginn, Gillian I. Leitc |
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Lanham [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Collana |
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Science fiction television |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science fiction television programs - History and criticism |
Time travel on television |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 On Disassociative Configurations of Time and Space; Part I: Examining Origins; 2 Trekking through Postmodern Time in Star Trek: The Next Generation; 3 Time Travel as Trope in Television Series; 4 No Fate, or Is There?; 5 From Slingshots to Prophetic Orbs; 6 A Tempting Narrative or a Temporal Gimmick; 7 "The Last Best Hope for Peace"; Part II: Correcting the Past; 8 The Past Comes Back to Kill You; 9 "It's All in Books!"; 10 Creating the Past; 11 Doctor Who and History |
12 Historical Approaches to History in The Time Tunnel, Voyagers!, and Quantum Leap13 Altering Human Evolution; 14 "Time Machines Are Nothin' but Trouble"; 15 Now Voyagers!; 16 Star Trek: Voyager and Time Travel; 17 Many Roads Traveled; Part III: Exploring the Future; 18 Twenty-Five Years of Smegging Up the Time-Space Continuum; 19 The Time Tunnel; 20 The Impossible Girl and the New World; 21 Narrative and Paradoxes in Doctor Who "Time-Loop" Stories; 22 "Did I Mention It Also Travels in Time?"; Bibliography; Videography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores how time travel has been used as a plot device in a number of television shows, including iconic programs like Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, and the Star Trek franchise, among others. It is organized into three general themes-Origins, Correcting the Past, and Exploring the Future. |
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