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
Author(s): Lorna Jowett, Kevin Robinson, David Simmons
Series: Investigating Cult TV
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 192
City: London
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
