Impossible worlds, impossible things : cultural perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures / edited by Melissa Beattie, Ross P. Garner and Una McCormack.

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TextPublication details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:

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9781443820462
1443820466
9781443819602
1443819603

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791.4/575 22

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PN1992.8.S35

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Contents:

Fifty not out : the Doctor's enduring appeal / Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie, and Una McCormack -- Part I. The ongoing storm : the Doctor in British society and culture. The regeneration game : Doctor Who and the changing faces of heroism / John Paul Green. The Doctor's burden : racial superiority and panoptic privilege in new Doctor Who / Christine Gilroy. Army of ghosts : sight, knowledge, and the invisible terrorist in Doctor Who / Matthew Jones. Constructing a space for the subversive : science fiction, comedy, and cultural commentary in new Doctor Who / Erica Moore -- Part II. The myth (re- )makers : classical tropes and methodologies. Beware of geeks appropriating Greeks : viewer reception of the myth of Philoctetes in Torchwood / Amanda Potter. Sideways Pompeii! : the use of a historical period to question the Doctor's role in history / Antony G. Keen. A kiss is just a kiss (except when it's not) : life and breath in the Whoniverse / Melissa Beattie.

(cont.) Part III. Traveling with Auntie : institutional debates and framings. "Not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West-End musical" : class, citizenship, and culture in new Doctor Who / Lisa Kerrigan. "Don't you forget about me" : intertextuality and generic anchoring in The Sarah Jane Adventures / Ross P. Garner. The popular electronic : Doctor Who and the BBC's radiophonic workshop / Charlotte Stevens. "Working with Daleks" : a discussion with Robert Shearman and Barnaby Edwards -- Afterword : scholar-fandom's different incarnations / Matt Hills.

Summary: The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest Otherin the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches-from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology-to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Other additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be acces.

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The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest Otherin the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches-from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology-to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Other additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be acces.

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