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  • Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader

    Adventures Across Space and Time by Booth, Paul; Hills, Matt; Roberts, Tansy Rayner;

    A Doctor Who Reader

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 16 November 2023
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350288379
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages312 pages
    • Size 246x190x18 mm
    • Weight 700 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 20 bw illus
    • 512

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    Long description:

    Adventures 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 collaborators as well as issues and debates around queer fandom, intersectionality, the 'wokeness' of the Doctor, fan media including websites, podcasts and vlogs, fan activism and questions of race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin offs. It considers Doctor Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but also one that has delighted, engaged and sometimes enraged viewers around the world.

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    Table of Contents:

    List 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

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