Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series

ISBN-13: 9781476681122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 243 str.

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Acknowledgments
Timeline and Terminology for Doctor Who's Doctors and Eras
Introduction to Doctor Who and Science
Lindy A. Orthia and Marcus K. Harmes
Who's Planet Looks Like Home?
J.J. Eldridge
Who's Moon
Elizabeth R. Stanway
E=mc3: Doctor Who and Energy
Marcus K. Harmes
Translation by TARDIS: Exploring the Science Behind Multilingual Communication in Doctor
Mark Halley and Lynne Bowker
"I don't want to go": How Does Regeneration Work in Doctor Who?
Natalie Ring
Did the Doctor Change Sex or Change Gender? Navigating the Sex and Gender Divide in Doctor
Mike Stack
Candyfloss, Lego and Hope: What Sort of Scientist Is Jodie Whittaker's Doctor?
Lindy A. Orthia and Vanessa de Kauwe
The Mad Scientist Wore Prada: Female Frankensteins in the Universe of Doctor
Kristine Larsen
Maxtible's Mirrors: Victorian Science in ­Classic-Era Doctor
Marcus K. Harmes and Richard Scully
The Victorians Sleeping in Our Minds: Victorian Scientific Enquiry in Old and New Series Doctor
Catriona Mills
Doctor Who and the Dinosaurs: Spectacle, Monstrosity, Melodrama and Ideology in Dinosaur Mediations
Ross Garner
The Use and Abuse of Scientific Writing in Doctor Who's Epistolary Paratexts
Tonguç İbrahim Sezen
The Science of Doctor
Mark Erickson
Concluding Remarks: Science in Twenties Doctor
Lindy A. Orthia and Marcus K. Harmes
About the Contributors
Index