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Doctor Who and the art of adaptation : fifty years of storytelling / Marcus K. Harmes.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.D6273 H36 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harmes, Marcus K.
- Series:
- Science fiction television.
- Science fiction television
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989).
- Doctor Who (Television program : 2005-2022).
- Doctor Who (Television program : 2005- ).
- History on television.
- Television and history.
- Science fiction television programs--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Science fiction television programs.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- Contents:
- In the beginning
- What gets adapted?
- Who was adapting?
- Motives for adapting
- A classical education: adapting history in Doctor Who
- Victorian worlds in Doctor Who
- Gothic themes and creative tensions
- British westerns, American frontiers, and a marketing strategy
- Who-dunit? Agatha Christie in time and space
- Tragedy, the Jacobeans' and Evelyn Waugh
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442232846
- 1442232846
- 9781442232853
- 1442232854
- OCLC:
- 866614901
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