Time on TV: Narrative Time, Time Travel and Time Travellers in Popular Television Culture

Description

From early examples such as "Star Trek" and "Sapphire and Steel" to more contemporary shows including "Life on Mars" and "The Vampire Diaries," time has frequently been used as a device to allow programme makers to experiment stylistically and challenge established ways of thinking. Time on Television offers readers a range of exciting, accessible, yet intellectually rigorous essays that consider the many and varied ways in which telefantasy shows have explored this subject, providing the reader with a greater understanding of the importance of time to the success of genre on the small screen Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Timey Wimey Stuff: Introduction to Time on TV Part I: Structuring Time 2. 'Time is a Companion... Who Goes with Us on the Journey': Star Trek, Time Travel and Patterns of Narrative History 3. Reality Resets: Changing the Past in Eureka 4. Timeslip: Putting Aside Childish Things 5. The Primeval Anomaly 6. 'There Is a Corridor': Sapphire & Steel, Torchwood and the Time Topography of P. J. Hammond Part II: Experiencing Time 7. 'No One Can Touch the Gene Genie': The Past as Fantasy Space in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes 8. Watchmaking in the Dark: the Intricacy of Intimacy in Crime Traveller 9. 'Centuries of Evil . . . Wacky Sidekicks . . . Yadda, Yadda': Vampire Television and the Conventions of Flashback 10. Timeless: Memory, Temporality, and Identity in Once Upon a Time 11. 'Bonanza Was Never Like This': Quantum Leap and Interrogating Nostalgia 12. Time on TV: Afterword Work Cited TV and Filmography Index