Now and Then We Time Travel: Visiting Pasts and Futures in Film and Television

280 Pages·2016·38.547 MB·English

by  Fraser A. Sherman

Now and Then
We Time Travel
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Now and Then
We Time Travel
Visiting Pasts and Futures
in Film and Television
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina
ISBN (print) 978-0-7864-9679-2
ISBN (ebook) 978-1-4766-2643-7
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© 2017 Fraser A. sherman. All rights reserved
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Front cover: christopher lloyd as dr. emmett brown in
Back to the Future, 1985 (universal Pictures/Photofest)
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To mum, dad, Tracy, craig and Paige for family.
To cindy and roxanne for friendship.
To dudley and Trixie, for being there.
To leAnn, for everything.
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Acknowledgments
This book wouldn’t be as good as it is without the suggestions,
advice and input of my friend and fellow movie buff ross bagby.
Thanks, ross, as always.
my friend Katherine Traylor helped me out by explaining Korean
names.
Johannes von moltke, department of germanic languages and
literatures at the university of michigan, gave me information i
couldn’t find anywhere else.
The Timelinks website (aetherco. com/ timelinks) was an invalu-
able resources for suggesting movies and Tv series that might other-
wise have slipped through the cracks. The list of Time Travel Fiction
on Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_time_travel_works_of_
fiction) and epguides.com were also great places to find time travel-
related material. my thanks to everyone who worked on them.
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
One. A century of screen connecticut yankees 7
Two. Time of the Time machine 13
Three. enjoying the exotic: Travel from the Present to other Times 20
Four. bouncing Around Time, getting lost and doing the Time Warp 47
Five. strange visitors from Another World: Travel to the Present from
other Times 64
Six. changing history: When Time is up for grabs 84
Seven. shaping the Future by changing the Past That is our Present 99
Eight. if i Knew Then What i Know Now: changing Personal history 125
Nine. love in a Time of Time Travel 164
Ten. Time cops: Policing the Time stream (or) Putting right What
once Went Wrong 181
Eleven. Déjà Vu All over Again: Time loop Films 192
Appendices 201
Appendix I: Film Credits 202
Appendix II: Television and Direct- to-Video Series Credits 225
Appendix III: Television Specials 230
Appendix IV: Films and Television Series with Minor Time Travel Elements 231
Appendix V: The Rest of the World 235
Appendix VI: Interesting Short Films 240
Appendix VII: Movies About Parallel Lives 241
Appendix VIII: Time Travel Porn Films 242
Chapter Notes 243
Bibliography 244
Index 245
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