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Doctor Who and history : critical essays on imagining the past / edited by Carey Fleiner and Dene October.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.D6273 D63 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989).
- Doctor Who (Television program : 2005-2022).
- History on television.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 214 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
- Summary:
- When Sydney Newman conceived the idea for Doctor Who in 1963, he envisioned a show in which the Doctor and his companions would visit and observe, but not interfere with, events in history. That plan was dropped early on and the Doctor has happily meddled with historical events for decades. This collection of new essays examines how the Doctor's engagement with history relates to Britain's colonial past, nostalgia for village life, Norse myths, alternate history, and the impact of historical decisions on the present. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Television as History: Inform and Entertain
- Journeys through Cathay: Remediation and Televisuality in "Marco Polo" / Dene October
- "O tempora, o mores": Class(ics) and Education in Doctor Who / Aven McMaster and Mark Sundaram
- Remixing the Imperial Past: Doctor Who, British Slavery and the White Savior's Burden / Susana Loza
- Part 2: Historical Drama: Genre and Conventions
- Doctor, Go Roman: "The Romans," Emperor Nero and Historical Comedy in Doctor Who / Carey Fleiner
- History as Genre, Aesthetic and Context in "The Gunfighters" / Ramie Tateishi
- A Rude Awakening: Metafiction in Eric Pringle's "The Awakening" / Andrew O'Day
- Part 3: Historical Constructions/Reconstructions
- Playing with History: Terrance Dicks, Fans and Season 6B / Rhonda Knight
- Doctor Who Unbound and Alternate History / Karen Hellekson
- The Vikings at the End of the Universe: Doctor Who, Norsemen and the End of History / Marcus K. Harmes
- Part 4: History and Identity
- Ape-Man or Regular Guy? Depictions of Neanderthals and Neanderthal Culture in Doctor Who / Kristine Larsen
- The Dark Heart of the Village: Doctor Who in the 1970s and the Problematic Idyll / Peter Lowe
- Doctor Who and Environmentalism in the 1960s and Early 1970s / Mark Wilson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1476666563
- 9781476666563
- OCLC:
- 995289273
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