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TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who


TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who

Paperback by Britton, Piers D. (University of Redlands, Southern California, USA)

TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who

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ISBN:
9781845119256
Publication Date:
29 Apr 2011
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
I.B. Tauris
Pages:
256 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Temporarily unavailable
TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who

Description

'Doctor Who' has always thrived on multiplicty, unpredictability and transformation, it's worlds and characters kaleidoscopic and shifting, and 'Doctor Who s complexity has grown. With its triumphant return to TV in 2005, it was made up of four different fictional forms, across three different media, with five actors simultaneously playing the eponymous hero. 'TARDISbound' is the first book to deal both with the TV series and with the 'audio adventures', original novels, and short story anthologies produced since the 1990s, engaging with the common elements of these different texts and with distinctive features of each. 'TARDISbound' places 'Doctor Who' under a variety of lenses, from examining the leading characteristics of these 'Doctor Who' texts, to issues of class, ethnicity and gender in relation to the Doctor(s), other TARDIS crew-members, and the non-human/inhuman beings they encounter. 'TARDISbound' also addresses major questions about the aesthetics and ethical implications of 'Doctor Who'.

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction I. THE VERY FABRIC OF TIME-AND-SPACE: Running Strands and Broken Threads in Doctor Who II. IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN? Doctor Who and the Social Matrix III. 'EVIL? NO ... I WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT': Rewriting and Reworking the Monstrous IV. 'WHO DA MAN?': The Doctor's Masculinities V. 'I'M NOT HIS ASSISTANT!': Being the Companion VI. TOWARDS AN AESTHETICS OF DOCTOR WHO VII. TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF DOCTOR WHO Notes Bibliography Index

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