New dimensions of Doctor Who : adventures in space, time and television

250 Pages·2013·5.5 MB·English

by  (Fictitious character) Doctor

Matt Hills is Professor in Film and TV Studies at Aberystwyth Univer-
sity. He is the author of five previous books, including Fan Cultures
(2002)andTriumphofaTimeLord(2010).Heisaregularreviewerfor
doctorwhonews.net, and has published widely on Doctor Who and
mediafandom.
‘A pop-cultural matrix of a show, Doctor Who needs exploratory
missions from as many different worlds and disciplines as possible.
Chewy,provocativeideasandslyinsightscombineinunexpectedways
here,makingsurethisbookwillsparkmanymoreusefulconversations
than“who’syourfavouriteDoctor?”’
– TatWood,authorofAboutTime7

Adventures in Space, Time
and Television
Edited by Matt Hills
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CONTENTS
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction:DoctorWhoStudies? 1
MattHills
PART I NEW DOCTOR WHO
1 AGoodScoreGoestoWar:Multiculturalism,Monsters
andMusicinNewDoctorWho 19
DavidButler
2 Making‘aSuperiorBrandofAlienMastermind’:
DoctorWhoMonstersandtheRhetoricof(Re)design 39
PiersD.Britton
3 TheCybermenasHuman.2 54
BonnieGreenandChrisWillmott
4 TalkingtotheTARDIS:DoctorWho,NeilGaimanand
CulturalMythology 71
WillBrooker
PART II NEW TELEVISION, NEW MEDIA
5 DoctorWhoasProgrammeBrand 95
CatherineJohnson
vi NEWDIMENSIONSOFDOCTORWHO
6 OnSpeed:TheOrderingofTimeandPace
ofActioninDoctorWho 113
AndrewO’Day
7 LearningwiththeDoctor:PedagogicStrategies
inTransmediaDoctorWho 134
ElizabethEvans
8 TweetingtheTARDIS:Interaction,LivenessandSocial
MediainDoctorWhoFandom 154
RebeccaWilliams
PART III NEW SPACES ANDTIMES
9 The‘DoctorWhoExperience’(2012—)and
theCommodificationofCardiffBay 177
MelissaBeattie
10 RememberingSarahJane:IntradiegeticAllusions,
EmbodiedPresence/AbsenceandNostalgia 192
RossP.Garner
11 AnniversaryAdventuresinSpaceandTime:
TheChangingFacesofDoctorWho’sCommemoration 216
MattHills
FurtherReading 235
CONTRIBUTORS
MelissaBeattieisaPhDstudentstudyingtheconstructionofnational
identity in the telefantasy series Torchwood at Aberystwyth University,
Wales.Melissaco-editedImpossibleWorlds,ImpossibleThings:Cultural
Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures
(Cambridge Scholars, 2010) and has contributed to Time Unincorpo-
rated Vol. 3 (Mad Norwegian Press, 2011) and Who Needs Experts?
Counter-MappingCulturalHeritage(Ashgate,2013).
PiersD.BrittonisAssociateProfessorandDirectorofVisual&Media
Studies at the University of Redlands, southern California. He is co-
author,withSimonBarker,ofReadingBetweenDesigns:VisualImagery
andtheGenerationofMeaninginTheAvengers,ThePrisonerandDoctor
Who(UniversityofTexasPress,2003)andtheauthorofTARDISbound:
NavigatingtheUniversesofDoctorWho(I.B.Tauris,2011).
Will Brooker is Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at Kingston
University,London.HeistheauthorofBatmanUnmasked,alongwithits
sequel,HuntingtheDarkKnight:Twenty-FirstCenturyBatman(I.B.Tauris,
2012).OtherbooksincludeUsingtheForceandAlice’sAdventures,and
he has edited The Audience Studies Reader and The Blade Runner
ExperienceaswellaswritingaBFIFilmClassicsvolumeonStarWars.Will
isthefirstBritisheditorofCinemaJournal.
David Butler is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of
Manchester.HeistheeditorofTimeandRelativeDissertationsinSpace:
CriticalPerspectivesonDoctorWho(ManchesterUniversityPress,2007),
and the author of Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen
viii NEWDIMENSIONSOFDOCTORWHO
(Wallflower,2009).David’srecentworkincludesachapterinMusicin
ScienceFictionTelevision(Routledge,2013)andresearchononeofthe
pioneeringfiguresinBritishelectronicmusic,DeliaDerbyshire.
Elizabeth Evans is Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Nottingham
University.Herresearchfocusesontherelationshipbetweentechnology
and the experience of narrative, tackling issues such as interactivity,
agency and immersion. Elizabeth’s first book Transmedia Television:
Audiences, New Media and Daily Life (Routledge, 2011) explores the
development of the internet and mobile phone as extensions and
alternativestothetelevisionset.
Ross P. Garner is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff
University,Wales.HehasrecentlycompletedhisPhDondiscoursesof
nostalgia in post-2005 British time travel television dramas and has
contributed to forthcoming edited collections on Doctor Who and
Torchwood, as well as co-editing Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things:
Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane
Adventures(CambridgeScholars,2010).
Bonnie Green has an MSc in social research methods and social
psychologyfromtheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience.
ShestudiedforaPhDinsociologyattheUniversityofExeter.Bonniewas
previously a research assistant on the BioethicsBytes project at the
University of Leicester, and has contributed work to Doctor Who and
Philosophy:BiggerontheInside(OpenCourt,2011).
MattHillsisProfessorinFilmandTVStudiesatAberystwythUniversity,
Wales.Heistheauthoroffivebooks,includingFanCultures(Routledge,
2002), The Pleasures of Horror (Continuum, 2005), and Triumph of a
Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-First Century
(I.B.Tauris, 2010). Matt has published widely on cult film/TV, media
fandom, and Doctor Who, and is a regular reviewer for doctorwho-
news.net.HeiscurrentlyworkingonanacademicstudyofTorchwood.
Catherine Johnson is Associate Professor at the University
ofNottingham.HerresearchexaminestheWesterntelevisionindustries
and the impact of industrial shifts on the cultural artefacts that they
produce. She is the author of Telefantasy (BFI, 2005) and Branding
CONTRIBUTORS ix
Television (Routledge, 2012) as well as the co-editor of ITV Cultures
(Open University, 2005) and Transnational Television History (Routle-
dge,2012).
AndrewO’Dayistheco-authorofTerryNation(ManchesterUniversity
Press, 2004) and editor of Doctor Who, The Eleventh Hour (I.B.Tauris,
2013). Andrew’s other recent work includes a chapter on satire in
Ruminations, Peregrinations and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to
Doctor Who (Cambridge Scholars, 2010), and chapters on the social
history of Who fandom in Doctor Who inTime and Space (McFarland,
2013).
RebeccaWilliamsisLecturerinCommunication,CulturalandMedia
StudiesattheUniversityofSouthWales.SheistheeditorofTorchwood
Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television (I.B.Tauris, 2013)
and has contributed work on Doctor Who, David Tennant and female
fandomtoBritishScienceFictionFilmandTelevision(McFarland,2011).
She is currently working on a book about ‘post-object fandom’ for
Bloomsbury, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Fandom
Studies.
ChrisWillmottisSeniorLecturerintheDepartmentofBiochemistryat
the University of Leicester, and a National Teaching Fellow. He has
established www.bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com, a web-based reposi-
tory of materials for teaching about the science and ethics of
biomedicine. Chris is a trustee of the British Universities Film and
VideoCouncil,amemberoftheeducationcommitteefortheNuffield
Council on Bioethics and has contributed work to Doctor Who and
Philosophy:BiggerontheInside(OpenCourt,2011).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has had an unusual and lengthy genesis (indeed, it’s pretty
muchregeneratedalongthepathtopublication).Firstandforemost,I’d
liketothankDavidMellor,whofirstdevelopedtheidea,BenjaminEarl
whohelpedontheway,andeveryonewhosubmittedmaterialforthe
book’s earlier incarnation. I would also like to extend my particular
thankstoallthosewhojoinedNewDimensionsofDoctorWhowithme,
andhelpeditintothisfinalconfiguration.
In Cardiff, thanks to my former colleagues Inaki Garcia-Blanco,
EmmaGilliam,JustinLewisandKarinWahl-Jorgensen.
InAberystwyth,hellotomynewworkmatesandall-roundfinefolk:
Daniel Chandler, Glen Creeber, Beck Edwards, Kate Egan, Merris
Griffiths, Kim Knowles, Jamie Medhurst, Paul Newland, Tom O’Malley
andSarahThomas.
I’d also like to thank and acknowledge my past and present PhD
students(asmallnumberofwhomarerepresentedinthesepages)for
havinghelpedtomakeacademiasuchapleasure.
At Doctor Who News, my appreciation goes to Harry Ward and
ChuckFoster.
At I.B.Tauris, thanks to Philippa Brewster (editor extraordinaire),
Cecile Rault and Dawn Rey. And thanks also to the series editors of
‘Reading Contemporary Television’, the fantastic Kim Akass and Janet
McCabewhohelpedguidethisproject.
Outsideacademia,cheerstoPaul,Helen,TimandAmyfor(mostly)
toleratingmyfoibles.
And, as always, much love to Mum, Dad, Pendy, Stu, Teresa, and
theirbeautifulnewarrival,Eleanor.