Dancing with the Doctor: Dimensions of Gender in the Doctor Who Universe (Who Watching)
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Rating | : | 4.90 (731 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1784533742 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-08-16 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Tauris), and author of Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan.. She is co-author with Stacey Abbott of TV Horror: Investigating The Dark Side of the Small Screen, co-editor with Kevin Robinson and David Simmons of Time on TV: Narrative Time, Time Travel & Time Travellers in Popular Television Culture (both I.B. Lorna Jowett is a Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton
She considers the showrunners, directors, producers and writers and the problems this flagship science fiction series has had in offering alternative gender models. Dancing with the Doctor, the first book on the Doctor Who universe to take gender as its focus, examines both the successful revival of the series since 2005 and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Constructions of masculinity, the author function, and how gender intersects with the other facets of identity, race, ethnicity and age, are just some of the areas explored in this accessible and wide-ranging re-view of these hotly debated elem
'Lorna Jowett's indispensable Dancing with the Doctor offers a fascinating look at how gender is represented on-screen in the series (and its spin-offs)offering detailed but accessible discussion of key characters, episodes and staff, together with analysis of the series' fandom, the book will be vital to all those interested in a new perspective on the worlds of Doctor Who.' - Rebecca Williams, university of South Wales, author of Fast-object Fandom