Worlds of Back to the Future

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.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: It’s About TimeSORCHA NÍ FHLAINN      1. Back to the Future: Edipus as Time TravelerANDREW GORDON      2. “You Space Bastard! You killed my pines!”: Back to the Future, Nostalgia and the Suburban DreamBERNICE M. MURPHY      3. “Don’t you think it’s about time?”: Back to the Future in Black and WhiteSTEPHEN MATTERSON      4. “There’s something very familiar about all this”: Generic Play and Performance in the Back to the Future TrilogyLUCY FIFE DONALDSON      5. Bury My Heart in Hill Valley, or, The Kid Who KO’d Liberty ValanceJOHN EXSHAW      6. Music in Flux: Musical Transformation and Time Travel in Back to the FutureCHRISTINE LEE GENGARO      7. Back to the Fifties! Fixing the FutureELIZABETH MCCARTHY      8. “Mom! You look so thin!”: Constructions of Femininity Across the Space-Time ContinuumKATHERINE FARRIMOND      9. Ronald Reagan and the Rhetoric of Traveling Back to the Future: The Zemeckis Aesthetic as Revisionist History and Conservative FantasyCHRISTOPHER JUSTICE      10. “This is what makes time travel possible”: The Generation(s) of Revolutionary Master Signifiers in Back to the FutureMICHAEL WILLIAMS      11. Showdown at the Café ’80’s: The Back to the Future Trilogy as Baudrillardian ParableRANDY LAIST      12. “Doing it in style”: The Narrative Rules of Time Travel in the Back to the Future TrilogyJENNIFER HARWOOD-SMITH and FRANCIS LUDLOW      About the Contributors      Index      -+

“provides a fine set of college-level, critical essays examining the cultural and historical importance of the Back to the Future trilogy.... Any science fiction or film collection will find this an outstanding survey packed with insights perfect for a film analysis course in general or any close examination of the three movies”—Midwest Book Review.