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Watching Doctor Who: Fan Reception and Evaluation: Who Watching

Autor Dr. Paul Booth, Craig Owen Jones
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 feb 2020
Watching Doctor Who explores fandom's changing attitudes towards Doctor Who. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans' values of Doctor Who change over time? As a show with an over fifty-year history, Doctor Who helps us understand the changing nature of notions of 'value' and 'quality' in popular television. The authors interrogate the way Doctor Who fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular episodes, Doctors, companions, and eras of Who. With a foreword by Paul Cornell.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350116764
ISBN-10: 1350116769
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Who Watching

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Paul Booth is Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at De Paul University, USA. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018); Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience (2016); Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2016). Craig Owen Jones is a lecturer at San Jose State University, USA, and an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Music and Media, Bangor University, Wales. He has written three books and over 30 articles on TV and film studies, music, history, and literary criticism.

Cuprins

FiguresTablesForeword by Paul CornellAcknowledgements Notes on TitlesIntroduction: Going Forward in All Our Beliefs: Regenerating and Re-Valuing Doctor Who FandomChapter One: The Concept of Evaluation in Doctor Who ReceptionCase Study 1A: The Mightiest Values: Rankings of Doctor Who - Paul BoothCase Study 1B: Fan Reaction Videos: Responding to Doctor Who - Craig Owen JonesDialogue 1C: Evolving Evaluation of Doctor Who - Paul Booth and Craig Owen JonesChapter Two: Reception History and Fan Perceptions of Doctor WhoCase Study 2A: Tegan: The Makers' Vision - Craig Owen JonesCase Study 2B: Reception after the Fact: Companions in Big Finish - Paul BoothDialogue 2C: The Ends of an Era - Paul Booth and Craig Owen JonesChapter Three: The Error of ErasCase Study 3A: Nightmare of Eden and the Limitations of Genre - Paul BoothCase Study 3B: The Discovery of The Time Meddler - Craig Owen JonesDialogue 3C: Series 24 - Craig Owen Jones and Paul BoothChapter Four: Re-Evaluating Value in the Canon of Doctor WhoCase Study 4A: Evaluative Changes in The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Craig Owen JonesCase Study 4B: The Caves of Dilemma: or, The Twin Androzani? Evaluating Value at the Poles - Paul BoothDialogue 4C: Minisodes and Changing Appreciation - Craig Owen Jones and Paul BoothConclusion: Go Forward in All of Your Beliefs, and Prove to Me that I Am Not Mistaken in MineEndnotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This book proves that some of the most fascinating adventures of Doctor Who didn't take place onscreen, but within the constant flux of critical perception and reassessment. This is an extraordinary and celebratory look at the evolution of a television series that can still inspire and baffle well into its sixth decade.
Watching Doctor Who moves smartly across fan and academic debates surrounding the value of TV series more generally, and the valuation of Doctor Who stories in particular. For anyone who's ever argued over their favourite episodes, Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones offer a timely provocation, a brilliant new dialogue, and a valuable intervention in the many understandings and evaluations of the good Doctor's epistopic interfaces.
An incisive and thoroughly readable study of how Doctor Who fandom ascribes value - and values - to the series in all of its incarnations, and how those value(s) shifting over time are reflected in the larger study of fandom as a cultural experience.
An entertaining and informative history and examination of Doctor Who fandom and criticism. I recommended it for anyone who ever debated their favourite Doctor . or companion . or monster - in other words, for all Doctor Who fans.

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Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over the over fifty-year history of the show, Watching Doctor Who explores fandom's changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans' values of Doctor Who change over time? As a show that's featured as part of the shared landscape of home entertainment since the 1960s, Doctor Who helps us understand the changing
nature of notions of 'value' and 'quality' in popular television. Through a series of in-depth case studies of fan polls and debates, Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones interrogate the way Doctor Who fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular episodes, Doctors, companions, and eras of Who.

With a foreword by Paul Cornell.