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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954837503321

Titolo

Ruminations, peregrinations, and regenerations : a critical approach to Doctor Who / / editor, Christopher J. Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

ISBN

1-282-65077-7

9786612650772

1-4438-2103-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HansenChristopher J

Disciplina

791.4572

Soggetti

Science fiction television programs - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART IV; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART V; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; PART VI; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; PART VII; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who examines the famous BBC science fiction show as a cultural artifact in dialogue with other science fiction, with politics and religion, and with the culture at large, both in terms of how it reflects and comments upon that culture and in terms of the audience and the peculiarities of its response. This book enables researchers in film and media to make historical, industrial, aesthetic, and ideological connec...