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Author:   Fraser A. Sherman
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780786496792

ISBN 10:   0786496797
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   11 January 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface One. A Century of Screen Connecticut Yankees Two. Time of the Time Machine Three. Enjoying the Exotic: Travel from the Present to Other Times Four. Bouncing Around Time, Getting Lost and Doing the Time Warp Five. Strange Visitors from Another World: Travel to the Present from Other Times Six. Changing History: When Time Is Up for Grabs Seven. Shaping the Future by Changing the Past That Is Our Present Eight. If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Changing Personal History Nine. Love in a Time of Time Travel Ten. Time Cops: Policing the Time Stream (or) Putting Right What Once Went Wrong Eleven. Déjà Vu All Over Again: Time Loop Films Appendices delete Appendix I: Film Credits delete Appendix II: Television and ­Direct-to-Video Series Credits delete Appendix III: Television Specials delete Appendix IV: Films and Television Series with Minor Time Travel Elements delete Appendix V: The Rest of the World delete Appendix VI: Interesting Short Films delete Appendix VII: Movies About Parallel Lives delete Appendix VIII: Time Travel Porn Films Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Provides countless examples of films and series centered on time travel...excellent --ARBA; A very thorough annotated catalog of a wide range of stories of time travel told through moving images. Sherman has put in lots of hard work and produced a very useful reference that is fun to sample --SFRA Review.

provides countless examples of films and series centered on time travel...excellent --ARBA.

Author Information

A former Florida reporter, Fraser A. Sherman has contributed articles to such publications as Newsweek, Boys Life and Movie Marketplace and is the author of four previous film books and more than two dozen published speculative-fiction short stories. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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