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Doctor who and history : critical essays on imagining the past / edited by Carey Fleiner and Dene October.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature.
- Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989).
- Doctor Who (Television program : 2005-2022).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- "This collection of new essays examines how the Doctor engages with history and inspires reflections upon it history. Topics includes reconstruction of lost historical serials, reflections on Britain's colonial past, the subversion of nostalgia for village life, the depiction of Norse myths, alternate history, and the impact of historical decisions on the present"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- Playing with history: Terrance Dicks, fans and season 6b / Rhonda Knight
- Doctor Who unbound and the alternate history / Karen Hellekson
- The Vikings at the end of the universe: Doctor Who, Norsemen and the end of history / Marcus K. Harmes
- 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 index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 22, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2981-1
- 9781476629810
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