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Science fiction audiences : watching Doctor Who and Star trek / John Tulloch and Henry Jenkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tulloch, John.
- Series:
- Popular fiction series.
- Popular fiction series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989).
- Star trek (Television program).
- Science fiction--Appreciation.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television ""institutions"" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired an following that continues to grow. The book is based on over ten years of research including interviews with fans and followers of the series. In that period, though the fans may have changed, and ways of studying them as ""audiences"" may have also changed, the programmes have endured intact, with Star Trek for example now in its fourth television incarnation. Jo
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the cover; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Beyond the Star Trek phenomenon; Chapter 2 Positioning the SF audience; Chapter 3 The changing audiences of science fiction; Chapter 4 Throwing a little bit of poison into future generations'; Chapter 5 'It's meant to be fantasy'; Chapter 6 'But why is Doctor Who so attractive?'; Chapter 7 'But he's a Time Lord! He's a Time Lord!'; Chapter 8 'We're only a speck in the ocean'; Chapter 9 'Infinite diversity in infinite combinations'
- Chapter 10 'At other times, like females'Chapter 11 'How many Starfleet officers does it take to change a lightbulb?'; Chapter 12 'Out of the closet and into the universe'; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-286) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-92613-8
- 1-134-92614-6
- 1-280-11376-6
- 0-203-99339-X
- 9780203993392
- OCLC:
- 475954294
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