In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Sometime travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from causing temporal aberrations. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century.

What is behind our fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one's own era? How do different media tell these stories and what does this reveal about the media's relationship to time? This collection of new essays--the first to address time travel across a range of media--answers these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception, Source Code and others.

About the Author
Matthew Jones is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on genre film and television, and mid-century British cinema-going. Joan Ormrod is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and co-founder and editor of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Reviews
"the focus on film and video games is strongest"-Midwest Book Review; "valuable...intriguing...recommended"-Science Fiction Studies; "this collection of new essays is the first to address time travel across a range of media"-Magonia Book News.



Book Information
ISBN 9780786478071
Author Matthew Jones
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm