Editor: Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie and Una McCormack
Date Of Publication: May 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1960-2
Isbn: 1-4438-1960-3
The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy.
The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches—from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology—to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
With additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be accessible to everyone, from interested academics in relevant fields to the general public.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editors’ Acknowledgements....................................................................... ix
Foreword .................................................................................................... xi
Andrew Pixley
Introduction
Fifty Not Out: The Doctor’s Enduring Appeal........................................ xvii
Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie, and Una McCormack
Part I: The Ongoing Storm: The Doctor in British Society and Culture
The Regeneration Game: Doctor Who and the Changing Faces
of Heroism................................................................................................... 3
John Paul Green
The Doctor’s Burden: Racial Superiority and Panoptic Privilege
in New Doctor Who................................................................................... 25
Christine Gilroy
Army of Ghosts: Sight, Knowledge, and the Invisible Terrorist in
Doctor Who ............................................................................................... 45
Matthew Jones
Constructing a Space for the Subversive: Science Fiction, Comedy,
and Cultural Commentary in New Doctor Who ........................................ 62
Erica Moore
Part II: The Myth (Re-)Makers: Classical Tropes and Methodologies
Beware of Geeks Appropriating Greeks: Viewer Reception
of the Myth of Philoctetes in Torchwood .................................................. 79
Amanda Potter
Sideways Pompeii!: The Use of a Historical Period to Question
the Doctor’s Role in History...................................................................... 94
Antony G. Keen
A Kiss is Just a Kiss (Except When it’s Not): Life and Breath
in the Whoniverse.................................................................................... 118
Melissa Beattie
Part III: Travelling with Auntie: Institutional Debates and Framings
“Not sure if it’s Marxism in action or a West-End musical”:
Class, Citizenship, and Culture in New Doctor Who............................... 145
Lisa Kerrigan
“Don’t You Forget About Me”: Intertextuality and Generic Anchoring
in The Sarah Jane Adventures ................................................................. 161
Ross P. Garner
The Popular Electronic: Doctor Who and the BBC’s Radiophonic
Workshop ................................................................................................ 182
E. Charlotte Stevens
“Working with Daleks”: A Discussion with Robert Shearman
and Barnaby Edwards.............................................................................. 201
Afterword: Scholar-Fandom’s Different Incarnations............................. 210
Matt Hills
Contributors............................................................................................. 218
Ross P. Garner is a PhD candidate at Cardiff University researching the construction of discourses of nostalgia within twenty-first century British time-travel television dramas.
Melissa Beattie is a postgraduate research student at Cardiff University. Her areas of study cover a range of disciplines including ancient history and popular culture.
Una McCormack is a writer. Her novel Doctor Who: The King’s Dragon, featuring the eleventh Doctor, is published by BBC Books (2010).
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