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Book SynopsisPeter Capaldi’s Doctor Who – unpredictable, embattled, mercurial - has raised many fresh issues for followers of the Time Lord. In this book, the first to address the Capaldi era in depth, international experts on the show explore Capaldi's portrayal of the Doctor, and Steven Moffat's role as show writer and executive producer. They evaluate the effect of Capaldi’s older age on the series’ pace and themes; his Scottishness and representations of Scotland in
Doctor Who’s history, and the roles of the Doctor’s female companions, particularly Clara Oswald as played by Jenna Coleman. The politics of war are addressed, as is the development of the alien-fighting military organisation UNIT in the show, as well as controversial portrayals of the afterlife and of immortality. There’s discussion of promotional discourses, the imagining of the Twelfth Doctor in fan fiction and fan art, fan responses to the re-gendering of the Master as female, and of Christmas television and the uncanny. For fans, scholars and students alike, this book is a fitting tribute to and assessment of Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Note on Terminology Acknowledgements Introduction,
Andrew O’Day Part One: The Doctor and His Companions 1. A Young–Old Face: Out with the New and in with the Old in
Doctor Who,
Richard Hewett 2. ‘I’m Scottish … I can really complain about things now’: Discourses of Scotland and Scottishness in
Doctor Who,
Douglas McNaughton 3. Clara’s Choice: The Political Lunarscape of ‘Kill the Moon’,
Sonia Michaels Part Two: Further Politics and Themes 4. A Good Man Goes to War? The Twelfth Doctor and the Politics of Conflict,
Robin Bunce 5. ‘Chap with wings there, five rounds rapid’: UNIT and the Politics of
Doctor Who,
Eric Leuschner 6. Heaven Sent? The Afterlife, Immortality and Controversy in the Steven Moff at/Peter Capaldi Era,
Andrew Crome 7. Comfort and Joy? The Steven Moffat/Peter Capaldi Christmas Specials,
David Budgen Part Three: Promotional Discourses 8. ‘Please welcome the Twelfth Doctor’: The Paratextual Branding of Peter Capaldi’s Tenure,
Matt Hills 9. The Transcultural Fan: Branding Series 8 of
Doctor Who in the US,
Paul Booth Part Four: Fandom 10. ‘
Doctor Who belongs to all of us’: Fan Texts and Fans’ Imaginings of the Future Twelfth Doctor,
Brigid Cherry 11. Hit or Miss? Fan Responses to the
Regenderation of the Master,
Dene October Appendix: Audience data List of Episodes: The Steven Moffat/Peter Capaldi era Index
