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Who travels with the doctor? : essays on the companions of Doctor Who / edited by Gillian I. Leitch and Sherry Ginn.
EBSCOhost Ebook Public Library Collection - North America Available online
EBSCOhost Ebook Public Library Collection - North America- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989).
- Doctor Who (Television program : 2005- ).
- Characters and characteristics on television.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This collection of new essays examines the role of the companion as an intermediate between viewers and the Doctor. The contributors discuss who travels with the Doctor and why, how they interact, how the companions influence the narrative and how their journeys change them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction-Comrade, Confidante, Companion, Chum: A Friend by Any Other Name (Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch); With Whom He Travels: The Companions of the Doctor (Gillian I. Leitch); "It's bigger on the inside": Verisimilitude and Companion Reactions to the TARDIS (Craig Owen Jones); "The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can't control": Disability and the Female Bodies of the Doctor's Companions (Kimberley McMahon-Coleman)
- "There's nothing only about being a girl": Learning to "Play" the Doctor's Companion (David Boarder Giles and Amy Peloff)Life Post-TARDIS? The Case for Jo Grant and Sarah Jane Smith (Sherry Ginn); Rose Is England: Nationhood, British Invasion Anxiety and Why the Doctor Will (Almost) Always Rescue His Companions (Tanja Nathanael); Rory Williams: The Boy Who Waited (Teresa Forde); A Muted Melody: The (Dis)Empowerment of River Song (Tom Powers); Companions Who Weren't: The Pompadour and the Pauper (Pamela Achenbach)
- When No One Can Hear You Scream: Doctor Who Companions on the Printed Page (Aaron John Gulyas)Selected Filmography ; Selected Bibliography ; About the Contributors ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2412-7
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