Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader
Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader was was an anthology book published by Bloomsbury in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
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.
Table of Content[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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
2. Early TV Scholarship
3. Production Insights
4. The (In)definite Article
5. Bigger, Louder, and Now in Colour!
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?
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
15. Feminist Doctor Who
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
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
Section IV: Doctor Whos Creative Intersections - Tansy Rayner Roberts
30. Fans for Hire
31. The Doctor Effect
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
35. Run Fast, Love Hard, Be Kind: Twenty Years in Doctor Who Fandom by Lynne M Thomas
36. Popping into Fiction
37. Sexism in Fandom
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
Index
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