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- Title
Oedipus Multiplex, or, The Subject as a Time Travel Film: Two Readings of Back to the Future.
- Authors
Wittenberg, David
- Abstract
The article examines two different interpretations of the movie "Back to the Future," co-wrote and directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. The paper aims to present a thorough analysis of the peculiar difficulty the theorist encounters in the face of the extremely mainstream cultural object. The author suggests several ways in which the film's formal and stylistic regressions may be reinterpreted without giving the aggressive presence of the film's sheer surface, but also without irretrievably isolating the theorist's inevitably difficult response from the producers' of the audiences' inevitably easy one.
- Subjects
MOTION picture evaluation; FILM criticism; BACK to the Future (Film : 1985); ZEMECKIS, Robert, 1952-; FOX, Michael J., 1961-; LLOYD, Christopher, 1938-; TIME travel in motion pictures; FILM theory; AUDIOVISUAL materials; MASS media
- Publication
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture, 2008, Vol 28, Issue 2/3, p51
- ISSN
1522-5321
- Publication type
Article