Time and Relative Dissertations in Space

Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who
Herausgeber: Butler, David

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first study of "Doctor Who" to explore the Doctor's adventures in all their manifestations: on television, audio, in print and beyond. Although focusing on the original series (1963-89), the collection recognizes that "Doctor Who" is a cultural phenomenon that has been "told" in many ways through a myriad of texts. Combining essays from academics as well as practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of "Doctor Who," the collection encourages debate with contrasting opinions on the strengths (and weaknesses) of the program, offering a multi-perspective view of "Doctor Who" and the reasons for its endurance.

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This fascinating book takes the reader on a rich and varied study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: Doctor Who. Combining essays from academics in Screen Studies with practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of Doctor Who, this collection is the first to study the Doctor's adventures in all their forms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780719076817
• ISBN-10: 0719076811
• Artikelnr.: 22718737

Autorenporträt

David Butler is Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: An earthly programme: origins and directions
1. How to pilot a TARDIS: audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in
Doctor Who - David Butler
2. The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who -
Jonathan Bignell
3. 'Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?' History,
pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who - Daniel O'Mahony
4. Bargains of necessity? Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history
at the BBC in the 1960s - Matthew Kilburn
Part II: The subtext of death: narratives, themes and structures
5. The empire of the senses: narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who
- Tat Wood
6. The ideology of anachronism: television, history and the nature of time
- Alec Charles
7. Mythic identity in Doctor Who - David Rafer
8. The human factor: Daleks, the 'evil human' and Faustian legend in Doctor
Who - Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
Part III: The seeds of television production: making Doctor Who
9. The Filipino army's advance on Reykjavik: world-building in studio D and
its legacy - Ian Potter
10. 'Who done it': discourses of authorship during the John Nathan-Turner
era - Dave Rolinson
11. Between prosaic functionalism and sublime experimentation: Doctor Who
and musical sound design - Kevin J. Donnelly
12. The music of machines: 'special sound' as music in Doctor Who - Louis
Niebur
Part IV: The parting of the critics: value judgements and canon formations
13. The talons of Robert Holmes - Andy Murray
14. Why is 'City of Death' the best Doctor Who story? - Alan McKee
15. Canonicity matters: defining the Doctor Who canon - Lance Parkin
16. Broader and deeper: the lineage and impact of the Timewyrm series -
Dale Smith
17. Televisuality without television? The Big Finish audios and discourses
of 'tele-centric' Doctor Who - Matt Hills
Afterword: My adventures - Paul Magrs