Once Upon a Time Lord: The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who

ISBN-13: 9781784532673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Ivan Phillips

Opis

"We're all stories in the end," said the Doctor in 'The Big Bang." Stories are fundamentally what Doctor Who is all about. Ivan Phillips presents a lively and richly varied analysis of the accumulated and interwoven, sometimes contradictory, body of tales that constitute this eccentric masterpiece of modern mythology. Concerned equally with "classic" and "New Who," Phillips traces the expansion of the Time Lord's story from the television into ever more intricate patterns of transmedia production. Doctor Who is considered as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in complex and at times divisive ways, at the same time reworking elements from many other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical. The book also offers a distinctive take on the popular hero's journey, reading the unsettled enigma of the Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has inhabited across more than half a century.

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: 'Quite a great spirit of adventure'1. Critics, fans and mythologies of discourse2. Doctor Who as mythology3. Doctor Who and mythology4. The hero and his worldsConclusion: 'The universe will surprise you'NotesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Ivan Phillips is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on popular culture, art and literature, with a particular interest in science fiction and the Gothic. He reviews for the journal Critical Studies in Television and contributed a chapter to Paul Booth's Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).