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This fascinating book takes the reader on a rich and varied study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: Doctor Who. Combining essays from academics in Screen Studies with practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of Doctor Who, this collection is the first to study the Doctor’s adventures in all their forms.

Table of Contents

Part I: An earthly programme: origins and directions
1. How to pilot a TARDIS: audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in Doctor Who - David Butler
2. The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who - Jonathan Bignell
3. ‘Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?’ History, pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who - Daniel O’Mahony
4. Bargains of necessity? Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history at the BBC in the 1960s - Matthew Kilburn
Part II: The subtext of death: narratives, themes and structures
5. The empire of the senses: narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who - Tat Wood
6. The ideology of anachronism: television, history and the nature of time - Alec Charles
7. Mythic identity in Doctor Who - David Rafer
8. The human factor: Daleks, the ‘evil human’ and Faustian legend in Doctor Who - Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
Part III: The seeds of television production: making Doctor Who
9. The Filipino army’s advance on Reykjavik: world-building in studio D and its legacy - Ian Potter
10. ‘Who done it’: discourses of authorship during the John Nathan-Turner era - Dave Rolinson
11. Between prosaic functionalism and sublime experimentation: Doctor Who and musical sound design - Kevin J. Donnelly
12. The music of machines: ‘special sound’ as music in Doctor Who - Louis Niebur
Part IV: The parting of the critics: value judgements and canon formations
13. The talons of Robert Holmes - Andy Murray
14. Why is ‘City of Death’ the best Doctor Who story? - Alan McKee
15. Canonicity matters: defining the Doctor Who canon - Lance Parkin
16. Broader and deeper: the lineage and impact of the Timewyrm series - Dale Smith
17. Televisuality without television? The Big Finish audios and discourses of ‘tele-centric’ Doctor Who - Matt Hills
Afterword: My adventures - Paul Magrs

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 11/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719076824, 978-0719076824
      ISBN10: 071907682X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This fascinating book takes the reader on a rich and varied study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: Doctor Who. Combining essays from academics in Screen Studies with practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of Doctor Who, this collection is the first to study the Doctor’s adventures in all their forms.

      Table of Contents

      Part I: An earthly programme: origins and directions
      1. How to pilot a TARDIS: audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in Doctor Who - David Butler
      2. The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who - Jonathan Bignell
      3. ‘Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?’ History, pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who - Daniel O’Mahony
      4. Bargains of necessity? Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history at the BBC in the 1960s - Matthew Kilburn
      Part II: The subtext of death: narratives, themes and structures
      5. The empire of the senses: narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who - Tat Wood
      6. The ideology of anachronism: television, history and the nature of time - Alec Charles
      7. Mythic identity in Doctor Who - David Rafer
      8. The human factor: Daleks, the ‘evil human’ and Faustian legend in Doctor Who - Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
      Part III: The seeds of television production: making Doctor Who
      9. The Filipino army’s advance on Reykjavik: world-building in studio D and its legacy - Ian Potter
      10. ‘Who done it’: discourses of authorship during the John Nathan-Turner era - Dave Rolinson
      11. Between prosaic functionalism and sublime experimentation: Doctor Who and musical sound design - Kevin J. Donnelly
      12. The music of machines: ‘special sound’ as music in Doctor Who - Louis Niebur
      Part IV: The parting of the critics: value judgements and canon formations
      13. The talons of Robert Holmes - Andy Murray
      14. Why is ‘City of Death’ the best Doctor Who story? - Alan McKee
      15. Canonicity matters: defining the Doctor Who canon - Lance Parkin
      16. Broader and deeper: the lineage and impact of the Timewyrm series - Dale Smith
      17. Televisuality without television? The Big Finish audios and discourses of ‘tele-centric’ Doctor Who - Matt Hills
      Afterword: My adventures - Paul Magrs

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