Details

Subject(s)

• Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989) [Browse]
• Doctor Who (Television program : 2005-2022) [Browse]
• Science fiction television programs—Great Britain—History and criticism [Browse]

Related name

Leitch, Gillian I., 1967- [Browse]

Series

• Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 39. [More in this series]
• Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 39 [More in this series]

Summary note

"This collection of fresh essays addresses a broad range of topics in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, both old (1963-1989) and new (2005-present)"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
• Includes videography (pages 269-276).

Contents

• Introduction / Gillian I. Leitch
• Event TV: fan consumption of televised Doctor Who in Britain (1963-present) / Andrew O'Day
• Social spaces: British fandom to the present / Andrew O'Day
• Don't call it a comeback / Aaron Gulyas
• Whose doctor? / J.M. Frey
• In and out of time: memory and chronology / Kieran Tranter
• Effecting the cause: time travel narratives / Paul Booth
• Narrative conflict and the portrayal of media, public relations and marketing in the new Doctor Who / Racheline Maltese
• Nostalgia for empire, 1963-1974 / Maura Grady and Cassie Hemstrom
• A needle through the heart: violence and tragedy as a narrative device / Lindsay Coleman
• Everything dies: the message of mortality in the Eccleston and Tennant years / Kristine Larsen
• "Ready to outsit eternity": human responses to the apocalypse / Andrew Crome
• A country made from metal? The "Britishness" of human-machine marriage in series 31 / Kate Flynn
• "Whatever you do, don't blink!" Gothic horror and the Weeping angels trilogy / David Whitt
• Doctor Who's women and his little blue box: time travel as a heroic journey of self-discovery for Rose Tyler, Martha Jones and Donna Noble / Antoinette F. Winstead
• Spoiled for another life: Sarah Jane Smith's adventures with and without Doctor Who / Sherry Ginn
• Chasing Amy: the evolution of the Doctor's female companion in the new Who / Lynnette Porter.

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ISBN

• 9780786465491 (softcover : acid-free paper)
• 0786465492 (softcover : acid-free paper)
• 2524142108 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 9782524142107 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013003027

OCLC

817595784

Other standard number

40022115098

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