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  2. Retrospective - Wikipedia

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    Film retrospectives are usually screenings of films grouped around a theme or a particular director. They are mounted as part of many film festivals, including the Retrospective section in the Berlin International Film Festival, [1] Sundance, [2] Locarno Film Festival, [3] Byron Bay Film Festival [4] They are also held by cinemas [5] [6] or various types of organisations.

  3. List of stories set in a future now in the past - Wikipedia

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    An aerial battle employing dirigibles with cannons, as depicted in En L'An 2000, a series of postcards printed between 1899 and 1910. The first flying experimental planes were between 1886 and 1910. This is a list of fictional stories that, when composed, were set in the future, but the future they predicted is now present or past.

  4. Reverse chronology - Wikipedia

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    The action of W. R. Burnett's novel, Goodbye to the Past (1934), moves continually from 1929 to 1873. [3] The Long View (1956) by Elizabeth Jane Howard describes a marriage in reverse chronology from 1950s London back to its beginning in 1926. [4] Edward Lewis Wallant uses flashbacks in reverse chronology in The Human Season (1960). [5]

  5. List of historical fiction by time period - Wikipedia

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    This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...

  6. Retroactive continuity - Wikipedia

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    A notable example of subtractive retconning is the X-Men film series. After X-Men: The Last Stand faced criticism for abruptly killing off characters such as Cyclops and Jean Grey , its sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past , features the character Wolverine traveling back in time to 1973 to prevent an assassination that, if carried out, would ...

  7. Chronotope - Wikipedia

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    The chronotope has also been adopted for the analysis of classroom events and conversations, for example by Raymond Brown and Peter Renshaw in order to view "student participation in the classroom as a dynamic process constituted through the interaction of past experience, ongoing involvement, and yet-to-be-accomplished goals" (2006: 247–259 ...

  8. Flashback (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started. [ 4 ] In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to "resolve an enigma". [ 5 ]

  9. Future History (Heinlein) - Wikipedia

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    Universe was a 1941 story from Heinlein's Future History series (shown here in the 1951 Dell edition). The Future History is a series of stories created by Robert A. Heinlein. It describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century.