| Description |
xii, 283 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Science fiction television
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Science fiction television (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Doctor who? What's he talking about?: performativity and the first Doctor / Dene October -- A contribution to dialogue: Doctor Who and the (un)spoken word / Andrew O'Day -- "The moment has been prepared for": regeneration and language in "Logopolis" and "Castrovalva" / Rhonda Knight -- Sensation, serialization, and seven: reading Doctor Who as a mid-Victorian text through "Ghost light" / Sam Maggs -- The Sylvester McCoy era of Target books and the literary experience / Ramie Tateishi -- The Doctor's wondrous wandering dialectic approach to the universe / Sheila Sandapen -- The wolf, the sparrow, and the river: feminine empowerment through graffiti / Camille D. G. Mustachio -- Translation failure: the TARDIS, cross-temporal language contact, and medieval travel narrative / Jonathan Hsy -- Brave new words: theatre as magic in "The Shakespeare code" / Buket Akgün -- A utopia of words: Doctor Who, Shakespeare, and the gendering of utopia / Delilah Bermudez Brataas -- Silence in the archives: the magic of libraries / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Destructive texts and the uncanny in "Human nature" and "Family of blood" / Dana Fore -- "All your little tin soldiers": Doctor Who and the language of the First World War / David Budgen -- Fairy tales, nursery rhymes and myths in Steven Moffat's Doctor Who / Anne Malewski -- The language of myth: violence and the sacred in Doctor Who / Lori A. Davis Perry -- The Doctor and Amy Pond: a bedtime story / Michael Billings -- Language games in the Whoniverse / Erica Moore -- The discourse of authenticity in the Doctor Who fan community / Paul Booth and Katie Booth. |
| Subject |
Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989)
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Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989) |
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Doctor Who (Television program : 2005- )
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Doctor Who (Television program : 2005- ) |
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Television and language.
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Science fiction television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction television programs. |
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Great Britain. |
| Added Author |
Barr, Jason, 1976- editor.
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Mustachio, Camille D. G., 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
1442234806 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9781442234802 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9781442234819 (electronic) |
| Standard No. |
40023904458 |
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