Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who
Autor John Higgsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2026
Aplicabilitatea practică a volumului Exterminate/Regenerate rezidă în capacitatea sa de a utiliza un fenomen pop-culture pentru a decoda mecanismele istoriei britanice moderne. Remarcăm aici că John Higgs nu se limitează la o cronică a episoadelor de televiziune, ci propune o analiză riguroasă a modului în care ideile supraviețuiesc și evoluează în ciuda obstacolelor birocratice sau sociale. Descoperim o perspectivă care transformă istoria „din culise” — de la viziunile producătorilor BBC până la influența politicii fandomului — într-un studiu despre reziliența culturală. Autorul tratează serialul ca pe un organism viu care a absorbit și reflectat transformările regatului, de la sfârșitul imperiului până în era digitală.
Stilul lui Higgs este precis și analitic, păstrând totodată acel ton „breezy” și plin de detalii inedite menționat de critica de specialitate. Comparabil cu Doctor Who de Graham Gibson în rigurozitatea cu care tratează impactul cultural, volumul de față este actualizat pentru a include noi perspective asupra modului în care personajele imaginare devin ancore identitare pentru public. În contextul operei sale, Exterminate/Regenerate continuă explorarea mitologiilor britanice începută în Watling Street și analiza dualităților culturale din Love and Let Die. Dacă în lucrările anterioare Higgs investiga figuri precum William Blake sau trupa The KLF, aici el aplică aceeași metodă de critică culturală asupra celui mai longeviv erou science-fiction, demonstrând de ce acest călător în timp rămâne o piesă centrală a imaginației colective.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1399614789
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria televiziunii și de sociologia culturii de masă. Dincolo de detaliile de producție, Exterminate/Regenerate oferă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care ficțiunea modelează realitatea socială. Este un instrument util pentru studenții la studii media și pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă cum un personaj excentric a reușit să supraviețuiască șase decenii, devenind un simbol al adaptabilității și schimbării constante.
Descriere
'Crammed with fascinating nuggets' INDEPENDENT, Biography of the Month
'Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old' JEREMY DYSON
With its unique ability to evolve and adapt more radically than any other fiction, Doctor Who has acted as a mirror to more than six decades of social, technological and cultural change. In the first biography of this central fixture of the British imagination, John Higgs invites us into the Doctor's TARDIS on a journey to discover how ideas emerge and survive despite the odds, how failed monks and war heroes created one of the most successful TV shows in history and why this wonderful wandering time traveller means so much to so many.
'A TARDIS of a book . . . the whole space-time continuum is inside' FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE
'Wonderful! You don't need to be a Whovian to delight at John Higgs's journey through Doctor Who, but you may well be one by the end of the book' ROBIN INCE
Recenzii
Crammed with fascinating nuggets . . . Surprisingly candid . . . Exterminate/Regenerate is a cracking read
Engrossing . . . anyone interested in television or cultural history will find it fascinating
Higgs does a meticulous job . . . The sort of capsule study that uses this genuinely odd and enduring show as a means to probe the travails of TV land and British society itself over the past 60 years
A cultural history of one of the most enduring creations of the 1960s . . . Unmissable
A TARDIS of a book. On the outside it's about a TV show, but open it up and you're plunged into the space-time continuum. John Higgs is your man for seeing eternity in a grain of sand
Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old. Full of surprising and piercing insights, and fascinating meditations on the nature of mystery. The first thing I've come across that absolutely nails the extraordinary nature of the cultural phenomenon that is Doctor Who. Like its subject, it's about so much more than it appears to be
With his usual mix of cultural savvy and sharp philosophical insight, John Higgs frees Doctor Who from the rubber tendrils of fandom to reveal an unkillable British myth which millions of us helped create together
Full of interesting tidbits and perfect for the Doctor Who fan in your life
Epic, pacey and blisteringly insightful. Higgs is a masterful guide to one of the weirdest elements in British pop culture. This is an adventure in time and space which manages to be thrilling, laugh-out-loud funny and oddly melancholic, often on a single page. He gives us the full authoritative story of Doctor Who. And along the way, we learn a great deal about modern Britain, our weird relationship with change, and the haunted corridors of our own childhood
Wonderful! You do not need to be a Whovian to delight at John Higgs's journey through Doctor Who, but you may well be one by the end of the book
One of the greatest books on a cultural phenomenon ever written . . . I found myself giggling and chortling throughout, heard myself make little gasps of recognition and at certain points, there were even tears. It is brilliantly insightful [and] absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in pop culture and modern storytelling. Read this book
Astute . . . there are engaging new theories to share and fascinating connections to trace. A fitting biography
Though chronological, the book takes a suitably 'timey-wimey' approach, with frequent diversions into the lives of its stars, writers and producers, its narrative parallels with English and Norse folklore, Dickens, Tolkien and Buddhism, and the political and cultural forces that have guided its evolution . . . Illuminating
I was very taken with Higgs's "biography of the infamous Time Lord". As well as being a study of the famous science fiction character, [Higgs] offers telling insights into British society and the failings of the BBC. There are shocking accounts of bad-tempered, homophobic, heavy-drinking, sexist actors and corporate bigwigs in the mix of a book that is also crammed with fascinating nuggets about the Doctor Who villains
An absorbing, engaging and gossipy history of Doctor Who, full of new insight and detail - both comprehensive and breezy, and so bigger on the inside. A joyous celebration of a British institution