Description
Book SynopsisAdventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about
Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse.The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and cultural changes over its 60 year lifetime.
Adventures Across Space and Time presents classic writings on
Who and its fandom by leading scholars including John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch and Matt Hills, but also represents writings and art by fans, including fans who went on to become showrunners, writers or even the Doctor himself, with contributions by Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, Douglas Adams and Peter Capaldi. This innovative anthology addresses
Doctor Who''s showrunners, Doctors, companions, enemies and c
Trade ReviewOver its sixty-year history,
Doctor Who has inspired a vast array of commentary.
The Doctor Who Reader gathers together a commendably representative range of such writing, academic and fan, classic and newly commissioned. An essential addition to the scholarship's unfolding text. -- Una McCormack, scriptwriter and author of Doctor Who: The Target Storybook (2019)
A wonderful book by some wonderful people, about what we love about
Doctor Who, why we love it, and how it loves us back. -- Steven Schapansky, host of Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro, UK
A brilliant compendium of the brilliance of
Doctor Who fandom. Intelligent, insightful and incredibly wide-ranging, this is a really engaging collection. I love the mix of new analysis and older pieces to give a comprehensive overview. A perfect introduction for those new to
Doctor Who scholarship, and packed with interest for more established scholars. There's so much here I'd never even thought of. I finished it then immediately wanted to start reading again. -- Simon Guerrier, producer and author of How The Doctor Changed My Life (2008)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword by Matthew Sweet Acknowledgements List of Contributors
Section I: Into the (Transmedia) Vortex: From Dalekmania to Time Lord Victorious - Paul Booth 1. Transmedia
Doctor Who I From ‘Canonicity in Doctor Who’ by Paul Cornell From ‘Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media: A Case Study in “Transmedia Storytelling”’ by Neil Perryman 2. Early TV Scholarship From ‘Dr Who: Similarity and Difference’ by John Tulloch From ‘Dr Who: Ideology and the Reading of a Popular Narrative Text’ by John Fiske 3. Production Insights From
The Making of Doctor Who by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke From
Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-First Century by Matt Hills 4. The (In)definite Article From
TARDISBound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who by Piers Britton From
Design for Doctor Who: Vision and Revision in Science Fiction Television by Piers Britton 5. Bigger, Louder, and Now in Colour! From ‘Adapting Telefantasy: The Doctor Who and the Daleks Films’ by John R. Cook From ‘Televisuality Without Television?: The Big Finish Audios and Discourses of “Tele-centric” Doctor Who’ by Matt Hills From
Love and Monsters: The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present by Miles Booy 6. The Legacy of
Doctor Who Literature by Stacey Smith? 7. The
Doctor Who Figurine Collection by Ross Garner 8.
Doctor Who: Time Fracture – Process, Techniques and Principles of an Immersive Experience Production by Sarah Atkinson and Helen Kennedy 9. The Costs of the Doctor:
Time Lord Victorious and Managing Transmedia Engagement by Elizabeth Evans
Section II Studying Doctor Who's Audiences and Fans - Matt Hills 10. The Powerless Elite From
Science Fiction Audiences by John Tulloch and Henry Jenkins 11. The Powerless Elite? From ‘Keeping the Elite Powerless: Fan-Producer Relations in the “Nu Who” (and New YOU) Era’ by Leora Hadas and Limor Shifman 12. The Eras of
Doctor Who From ‘Periodising Doctor Who’ by Paul Booth 13. Political Doctor Who From ‘Is Doctor Who Political?’ by Alan McKee 14. Desiring
Doctor Who From ‘Desiring the Doctor: Identity, Gender and Genre in Online Fandom’ by Rebecca Williams 15. Feminist
Doctor Who From ‘“Finally, we get to play the Doctor”: Feminist Female Fans’ Reactions to the First Female Doctor Who’ by Neta Yodovich 16. Fans as Consumers: Psychographics and Tribalism in
Doctor Who Fandom by Alison Lawson and David Lawson 17. The Controversy of the Thirteenth Doctor Announcement and
Doctor Who Fandom on Tumblr by Alice de Freitas Gomes and Polyana Inácio Rezende Silva 18.
Marginally Fannish: Fan Podcasts as Alternative Sites of Intersectional Education by Parinita Shetty 19. Casual Fans and Non-Fans in
Flux: The Reception of ‘Once, Upon Time’ and
Doctor Who’s Return to Serialization by Dominique Gagnon
Section III: Doctor Who Fandom in the 21st Century - Joy Piedmont 20. Tumblr Fandom Is an Unknowable Anti-Monolith Cryptid by Lena Barkin 21. The Police Box From ‘Doctor Who’s TARDIS Has a Different Meaning for Black Fans’ by Constance Gibbs 22. Space Isn’t Always for Everyone: How Unconscious Racial Bias in
Doctor Who Scripts Affects Fan Perception of Companions of Colour by Amanda-Rae Prescott 23. ‘Martha Jones is a lesbian’: Queer (Re)interpretations of Companions in
Doctor Who by Océane I. Nyela and Anna Young 24. Fandom DIY:
Doctor Who Fans in Poland by Magdalena Stonawska 25. ‘The Day of The Doctor’ and ‘Flux’ in Latin America: The Relationship between BBC’s Strategies and Brazilian Whovians by Eloy Vieira and Lilian França 26. Translating
Doctor Who into Chinese: Fansubbing and
Doctor Who Fandom in China by Ting Guo 27. The Girl Who Waited Survived: Fan Rewritings of Amy Pond by Bethan Jones 28. Forks in the Fandom Road: Divergent Views on the Social Politics of
Doctor Who by Talia Franks 29. Postcolonial
Doctor Who From ‘Through Coloured Eyes: An Alternative Viewing of Postcolonial Transition’ by Vanessa de Kauwe
Section IV: Doctor Who’s Creative Intersections - Tansy Rayner Roberts 30. Fans for Hire From ‘Douglas Adams: The First Professional Doctor Who Fan’ by Eddie Robson 31. The Doctor Effect From ‘How Fanzines Helped Put Doctor Who Fans in Charge of Doctor Who’ by Nolan Feeney 32. Fannish Origin Stories From ‘Dalek-Builders’ by Peter Capaldi From rec.arts.drwho Post by Steven Moffat 33. Poachers Turned Cartographers by Ian Potter 34. Within Any Fan’s Dream From David J Richardson interviews Kate Orman 35. Run Fast, Love Hard, Be Kind: Twenty Years in
Doctor Who Fandom by Lynne M Thomas 36. Popping into Fiction From ‘Where To Find the Doctor in All of My Historical Fantasy Novels’ by Mary Robinette Kowal 37. Sexism in Fandom From ‘The Uncomfortable Truth About Fandom Sexism’ by Claudia Boleyn 38. When Fans Become Showrunners by Julia Henken 39. Scripting Fandom in 21st Century
Doctor Who by Paul Driscoll 40. The legacy of the fanzine Renaissance by Leslie McMurtry Index
