Back to the Future was the top-grossing film of 1985 and the eighth highest-grossing film of the 1980s. It was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Original Screenplay in 1986; and won the 1986 Peoples Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture. Co-written and directed by Spielberg proteacute;geacute; Robert Zemeckis; it became a landmark of New New Hollywood and has continued to grow in popularity; voted 20th in Empire magazines 2006 readers poll of the best films of all time. In 2007; the United States Library of Congress deemed Back to the Future to be culturally; historically or aesthetically significant enough to be preserved for all time in the National Film Registry. Other choices that year included such classics as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Now; Voyager (1942); Oklahoma! (1955) and 12 Angry Men (1957). Andrew Shail and Robin Stoates study of the film places it in the historical context of Reaganite America and the cinematic context of the New New Hollywood and Zemeckiss film-making career. They discuss the films treatment of time travel and its depiction of the potential and pitfalls of science and of atomic energy. Shail and Stoate consider Back to the Futures attitudes towards teen culture of the 1980s and the 1950s; seen in the film as a period in which traditional American values and gender roles held sway to the benefit of family and community life; in contrast to the more troubled decade from which Marty McFly begins his time-travelling adventures.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Poignant and heartwarming This I Believes from the 1950s and the early 21 centuryBy Keith WheelockThis is a superb collection of personal essays reflecting the beliefs of Philadelphians in the 1950s and in the early 21 century. It continues the This I Believe book series that were initiated in the early 1950s and captured a CBS audience of 39 million listeners weekly. I find striking the contrast between many of the early and current This I Believes. Initially; essayists often seemed more formal. The current essays frequently are stories that are a snapshot of one aspect of the authors beliefs. All are worth reading; preferably aloud. The book makes a marvelous gift to old and young--whomever is interested in personal beliefs and; perhaps; in trying their hand at writing their personal beliefs.
