Time travel television : the past from the present, the future from the past / / edited by Sherry Ginn, Gillian I. Leitc
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Time travel television : the past from the present, the future from the past / / edited by Sherry Ginn, Gillian I. Leitc
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.45/615 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science fiction television programs - History and criticism |
| Time travel on television | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GinnSherry |
| LeitchGillian I. <1967-> | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Time travel television |
| ISBN: | 1-4422-5577-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824713203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Science fiction television (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)