Time and Relative Dissertations in Space

Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who

By: David Butler (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 November 2007

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Time and relative dissertations in space takes the reader on a rich and varied study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: Doctor Who.

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 recognises 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 programme, offering a multi-perspective view of Doctor Who and the reasons for its endurance.

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"Adds to existing scholarship on "Doctor Who" in important ways the book brings together the work of an impressive range of writers that collectively present an engaging, thought-provoking and complex analysis of the texts of "Doctor Who.""--Cathy Johnson, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London."

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List of figures	p. ix
Note on titles, terms and structure	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
An earthly programme: origins and directions	p. 17
How to pilot a TARDIS: audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in Doctor Who	p. 19
The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who	p. 43
'Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?' History, pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who	p. 56
Bargains of necessity? Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history at the BBC in the 1960s	p. 68
The subtext of death: narratives, themes and structures	p. 87
The empire of the senses: narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who	p. 89
The ideology of anachronism: television, history and the nature of time	p. 108
Mythic identity in Doctor Who	p. 123
The human factor: Daleks, the 'Evil Human' and Faustian legend in Doctor Who	p. 138
The seeds of television production: making Doctor Who	p. 159
The Filipino army's advance on Reykjavik: world-building in Studio D and its legacy	p. 161
'Who done it': discourses of authorship during the John Nathan-Turner era	p. 176
Between prosaic functionalism and sublime experimentation: Doctor Who and musical sound design	p. 190
The music of machines: 'special sound' as music in Doctor Who	p. 204
The parting of the critics: value judgements and canon formations	p. 215
The talons of Robert Holmes	p. 217
Why is 'City of Death' the best Doctor Who story?	p. 233
Canonicity matters: defining the Doctor Who canon	p. 246
Broader and deeper: the lineage and impact of the Timewyrm series	p. 263
Televisuality without television? The Big Finish audios and discourses of 'tele-centric' Doctor Who	p. 280
Afterword: My adventures	p. 296
Select bibliography	p. 310
Select list of films and programmes	p. 314
Contributors	p. 323
Index	p. 327
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