Time travel in popular media
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Something has happened to time. In recent years the media have produced numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and videogames that bend, shatter and rebuild the clock. What caused this fascination with time travel? This book explores time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts.
In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Sometime travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from causing temporal aberrations. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century.
What is behind our fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one's own era? How do different media tell these stories and what does this reveal about the media's relationship to time? This collection of new essays--the first to address time travel across a range of media--answers these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception, Source Code and others.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 maart 2015
Aantal pagina's: 325
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdredacteur: Matthew Jones
Tweede Redacteur: Joan Ormrod
Hoofduitgeverij: Mcfarland Publishing
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 164 mm
Product hoogte: 17 mm
Product lengte: 225 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 164 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm
Verpakking lengte: 225 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 590 g
EAN: 9780786478071