Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games

by Joan Ormrod and Matthew Jones

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786478071
• ISBN13: 9780786478071
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher