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Ruminations, peregrinations, and regenerations : a critical approach to Doctor Who /

Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who examines the famous BBC science fiction show as a cultural artifact in dialogue with other science fiction, with politics and religion, and with the culture at large, both in terms of how it reflects and comments upon...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hansen, Christopher J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : timely and timeless / Chris Hansen
  • Who is the Doctor : constructing an identity. Who is The Doctor? : the meta-narrative of Doctor Who / Michelle Cordone and John Cordone ; Davies, Dawkins and Deus ex TARDIS : who finds god in the doctor? / Dee Amy-Chinn
  • Changing (or not changing) history. Who needs family? : I've got the whole world on my shoulders : how the Doctor's non-domesticity interrupts history / Todd Comer ; Benevolent whogemony : Doctor Who and the transmedial time traveler / Joshua Louis Moss
  • National and international identity. Rebooting and re-branding : the changing brands of Doctor Who's Britishness / Barbara Selznick ; Aliens of London : (re)reading national identity in Doctor Who / Matthew Jones
  • Companions : gender and race. "But Doctor?" : a feminist perspective of Doctor Who / Richard Wallace ; Gender redux : Bionic Woman, Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica / Noah McLaughlin ; Intergalactic girlpower : the gender politics of companionship in 21st century Doctor Who / Lee Barron ; Agency, action, and re-action : the black female presence in Doctor Who / Timothy Mark Robinson
  • Intersexuality and metatextuality. When worlds continue : the doctor's adventures in fandom and metatextuality / Balaka Basu ; Cultural circulation and circularities in Doctor Who : bardolatry and the time vortex of intertextuality / Bruce Wyse
  • Audience studies. Regeneration of a brand : the fan audience and the 2005 Doctor Who revival / Douglas McNaughton ; Squee, retcon, fanwank and the not-we : computer-mediated discourse and the online audience for NuWho / Brigid Cherry ; The moral economy of Doctor Who : forgiving fans and the objects of their devotion / Joshua Vasquez ; Doctor Who fan videos, YouTube, and the public sphere / Jeremy Sarachan
  • Other considerations. Towards a definition of satire in Doctor Who / Andrew O'Day ; The suffering of the skin : the uncanny nature of the cybermen in the Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who / James Rose ; Interference, the Doctor, and the good life / Courtland Lewis ; Author who? : masterplanners, scribermen, and script doctors, the producers, writers, and script editors of Doctor Who / Tom Steward
  • Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index.