Comments | adamdobay: [open post] Looking for academic Doctor Who material

adamdobay

[open post] Looking for academic Doctor Who material

Jun 17, 2007 19:58

As my friends already know, I'm writing both of my MA theses from the new series of Doctor Who, focusing on its format; the genres it visits in different episodes; the social, cultural, psychological and mythological issues it touches upon; and what the new series as a whole is trying to achieve. While I have a general idea of what I want to ( Read more... )

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adamdobay June 17 2007, 21:11:47 UTC

Haha, this guy looks cool. First academic I've seen put a Mii avatar on his website! :)

Just checked and apparently Matt Hills published an article on New Who last year (Wales Media Journal).

Is there any way I could get a glimpse of that, an online version or something?

aryas_zehral June 19 2007, 22:36:19 UTC

Doctor Who discovers …Cardiff: Investigating trans-generational audiences and trans-national fans of the BBC Wales Production
Matt Hills, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

In
Media Wales Journal.
Volume: 3
Published: April 2006.
(http://www.cyfrwng.com/e/journal/cyfrwng3.shtml)

Can't see anything about getting hold of it though, at least not on the net. Sorry.

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geekosaur June 17 2007, 20:59:01 UTC

Not sure if it'd be useful to you, but Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text is an academic text about (classic) DW as media.

adamdobay June 17 2007, 21:13:28 UTC

Thank you. It is the book I have ordered without quetsion. It is so widely quoted that I didn't even think about not ordering it.

eulalumel June 18 2007, 15:40:42 UTC

Andrew Cartmel's Through Time is useful if you want to know his opinions of the show. Given that he was script editor it also gives some insight into production.

It also explains Ghost Light as a bonus. :)

It reviews a few episodes and does talk a little about format. Difficult to know whether it will suit your purposes or not.

adamdobay June 18 2007, 16:49:52 UTC

Right now I feel I'm not that interested in Andrew Cartmel's opinions so much that I will order his book. :) Still, thank you for your reply.

So I was playing at being a good student today... aryas_zehral June 19 2007, 21:17:51 UTC

... and while at the Library I had a gander at the few books they had on Doctor Who, and next them on the shelf, while I was there. This is what I found:

Tullock, John and Alvardo, Manuel. Doctor Who and the Unfolding Text The 5 Doctors.
Chapter list as follows: Introduction//Mystery: Television Discourse and Institution//Regeneration: Narrative Similarity and Difference//Establishment: Science Fiction and Fantasy//Send-Up: Authorship and Organisation//Cliffhanger: Circulating STars and Sattelites//'Kinda;: COnditions of Production and Performance. (book is a "history" that seeks to examine Doctor Who "as a text that unfolds according to a wide range of industrial, professional, public, cultural and ideological forces.

Chapman, James. Inside the TARDIS: The Worlds of Doctor Who. A Cultural History. (London and New York: I.B. Taurus. 2006)
A chapter on each Doctor. Covers period up to The Christmas Invasion.
Chapter 9. Second Coming (2005). Pg 184-201.
Discussed New Who in relation to:

British Equivalents of American ( ... )

Re: So I was playing at being a good student today... aryas_zehral June 19 2007, 21:19:40 UTC

bloody html broke, sorry. hopefully you can read it anyway. *smile*

Re: So I was playing at being a good student today... adamdobay June 22 2007, 08:34:19 UTC

No prob, I managed. :)

Re: So I was playing at being a good student today... adamdobay June 22 2007, 08:33:59 UTC

Thank you very much for looking this up for me. It's great help.

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