Time-Travel Television - The Past From the Present, the Future From the Past

This book explores how time travel has been used as a plot device in a number of television shows, including iconic programs like Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, and the Star Trek franchise, among others. It is organized into three general themes-Origins, Correcting the Past, and Exploring the Future.

About the author

Sherry Ginn has published numerous research articles in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. She is author or editor of numerous books, including Power and Control in the Worlds of Joss Whedon (2012) and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Gillian I. Leitch is the coeditor of Doctor Who in Time and Space: Essays on Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012 (2013).

Summary

This book explores how time travel has been used as a plot device in a number of television shows, including iconic programs like Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, and the Star Trek franchise, among others. It is organized into three general themes-Origins, Correcting the Past, and Exploring the Future.

Product details

• Authors: Ginn, Sherry Leitch Ginn
• Assisted by: Sherry Ginn (Editor), Ginn Sherry (Editor), Gillian I. Leitch (Editor), Leitch Gillian I. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2015
• EAN: 9781442255760
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5576-0
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Science Fiction Television; Science Fiction Television
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, time travel;tv