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Doctor Who – New Dawn
Essays on the Jodie Whittaker era
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2021
About this book
Doctor Who – new dawn explores the latest cultural moment in this long-running BBC TV series: the casting of a female lead. Analysing showrunner Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker’s era means considering contemporary Doctor Who as an inclusive, regendered brand. Featuring original interview material with cast members, this edited collection also includes an in-depth discussion with Segun Akinola, composer of the iconic theme tune’s current version.
The book critically address the series’ representations of diversity, as well as fan responses to the thirteenth Doctor via the likes of memes, cosplay and even translation into Spanish as a grammatically gendered language. In addition, concluding essays look at how this moment of Who has been merchandised, especially via the ‘experience economy’, and how official/unofficial reactions to UK lockdown helped the show to further re-emphasise its public-service potential.
The book critically address the series’ representations of diversity, as well as fan responses to the thirteenth Doctor via the likes of memes, cosplay and even translation into Spanish as a grammatically gendered language. In addition, concluding essays look at how this moment of Who has been merchandised, especially via the ‘experience economy’, and how official/unofficial reactions to UK lockdown helped the show to further re-emphasise its public-service potential.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Andrew O'Day
Andrew O'Day has recently completed a Ph.D. thesis on television science fiction at Royal Holloway, University of London
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Front Matter
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Dedications
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Contents
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List of figures
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Notes on contributors
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Introduction
1 - Part I Creating Thirteen
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1 Variations on a theme
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2 ‘She is wise and unafraid’
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3 Shooting stars
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4 About time
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5 Casual queerness and desire lines in Doctor Who
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6 Post-racial amnesia
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7 All in the ‘fam’
121 - Part III Fan responses
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8 Doctor Whumour
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9 Braces, culottes, and coloured stripes
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10 Regendering and the chaos of translation
176 - Part IV Beyond the text
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11 By any other name
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12 Outside the box in the Chris Chibnall / Jodie Whittaker era
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13 The thirteenth Doctor during UK lockdown
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Appendix
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Index
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eBook published on:
August 3, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526151889
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eBook ISBN:
9781526151889
Keywords for this book
Chris Chibnall; Gender-blind casting; Representation and diversity; BBC brand; Segun Akinola; TV spectacle; Fan production; Merchandising/fan-generated paratexts; Experience economy; Jodie Whittaker
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
