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BL
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659606
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| Title & Author
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The worlds of Back to the future : : critical essays on the films /\ edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
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| Publication Statement
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Jefferson, N.C. :: McFarland & Co.,, c2010
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| Page. NO
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viii, 264 p. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780786444007 (softcover : alk. paper)
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: 0786444002 (softcover : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : it's about time / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn -- Back to the future : Îdipus as time traveler / Andrew Gordon -- "You space bastard! you killed my pines!" : Back to the future, nostalgia and the suburban dream / Bernice M. Murphy -- "Don't you think it's about time?": Back to the future in black and white / Stephen Matterson -- "There's something very familiar about all this" : generic play and performance in the Back to the future trilogy / Lucy Fife Donaldson -- Bury my heart in Hill Valley, or, the kid who KO'd Liberty Valance / John Exshaw -- Music in flux : musical transformation and time travel in Back to the future / Christine Lee Gengaro -- Back to the Fifties! fixing the future / Elizabeth McCarthy -- "Mom! you look so thin!" : constructions of femininity across the space-time continuum / Katherine Farrimond -- Ronald Reagan and the rhetoric of traveling back to the future : the Zemeckis aesthetic as revisionist history and conservative fantasy / Christopher Justice -- "This is what makes time travel possible" : the generation(s) of revolutionary master signifiers in Back to the future / Michael Williams -- Showdown at the Café '80's: the Back to the future trilogy as Baudrillardian parable / Randy Laist -- "Doing it in style" : the narrative rules of time travel in the Back to the future trilogy / Jennifer Harwood-Smith and Francis Ludlow
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| Abstract
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"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
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| Subject
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Time travel in motion pictures
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Back to the future (Motion picture)
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Back to the future part II (Motion picture)
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Back to the future part III (Motion picture)
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/72
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| LC Classification
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PN1997.B1935W67 2010
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| Added Entry
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Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha,1980-
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