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 interdisciplinary fields, including philosophy, literature, music, pop culture, and media and gender studies. Topics include sexual symbolism in the trilogy and the oedipal plotting of the first film; nostalgia and the suburban dream in the cultural climate of the 1980s; generic play and performance throughout the trilogy; the emotional and narrative force provided by the films' renowned musical scores; the…mehr
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 interdisciplinary fields, including philosophy, literature, music, pop culture, and media and gender studies. Topics include sexual symbolism in the trilogy and the oedipal plotting of the first film; nostalgia and the suburban dream in the cultural climate of the 1980s; generic play and performance throughout the trilogy; the emotional and narrative force provided by the films' renowned musical scores; the trilogy's post-modern references and allusions to the Western genre; female representations across the trilogy; and the Lacanian philosophical constructs in the characterizations of Doc Brown and George and Marty McFly.
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies, and founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: It's About Time SORCHA NÍ FHLAINN 1. Back to the Future: Edipus as Time Traveler ANDREW GORDON 2. "You Space Bastard! You killed my pines!": Back to the Future, Nostalgia and the Suburban Dream BERNICE M. MURPHY 3. "Don't you think it's about time?": Back to the Future in Black and White STEPHEN MATTERSON 4. "There's something very familiar about all this": Generic Play and Performance in the Back to the Future Trilogy LUCY FIFE DONALDSON 5. Bury My Heart in Hill Valley, or, The Kid Who KO'd Liberty Valance JOHN EXSHAW 6. Music in Flux: Musical Transformation and Time Travel in Back to the Future CHRISTINE LEE GENGARO 7. Back to the Fifties! Fixing the Future ELIZABETH MCCARTHY 8. "Mom! You look so thin!": Constructions of Femininity Across the Space-Time Continuum KATHERINE FARRIMOND 9. Ronald Reagan and the Rhetoric of Traveling Back to the Future: The Zemeckis Aesthetic as Revisionist History and Conservative Fantasy CHRISTOPHER JUSTICE 10. "This is what makes time travel possible": The Generation(s) of Revolutionary Master Signifiers in Back to the Future MICHAEL WILLIAMS 11. Showdown at the Café '80's: The Back to the Future Trilogy as Baudrillardian Parable RANDY LAIST 12. "Doing it in style": The Narrative Rules of Time Travel in the Back to the Future Trilogy JENNIFER HARWOOD-SMITH and FRANCIS LUDLOW About the Contributors Index -+
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: It's About Time SORCHA NÍ FHLAINN 1. Back to the Future: Edipus as Time Traveler ANDREW GORDON 2. "You Space Bastard! You killed my pines!": Back to the Future, Nostalgia and the Suburban Dream BERNICE M. MURPHY 3. "Don't you think it's about time?": Back to the Future in Black and White STEPHEN MATTERSON 4. "There's something very familiar about all this": Generic Play and Performance in the Back to the Future Trilogy LUCY FIFE DONALDSON 5. Bury My Heart in Hill Valley, or, The Kid Who KO'd Liberty Valance JOHN EXSHAW 6. Music in Flux: Musical Transformation and Time Travel in Back to the Future CHRISTINE LEE GENGARO 7. Back to the Fifties! Fixing the Future ELIZABETH MCCARTHY 8. "Mom! You look so thin!": Constructions of Femininity Across the Space-Time Continuum KATHERINE FARRIMOND 9. Ronald Reagan and the Rhetoric of Traveling Back to the Future: The Zemeckis Aesthetic as Revisionist History and Conservative Fantasy CHRISTOPHER JUSTICE 10. "This is what makes time travel possible": The Generation(s) of Revolutionary Master Signifiers in Back to the Future MICHAEL WILLIAMS 11. Showdown at the Café '80's: The Back to the Future Trilogy as Baudrillardian Parable RANDY LAIST 12. "Doing it in style": The Narrative Rules of Time Travel in the Back to the Future Trilogy JENNIFER HARWOOD-SMITH and FRANCIS LUDLOW About the Contributors Index -+
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