Paul Booth, Craig Owen Jones

Watching Doctor Who (eBook, ePUB)

Fan Reception and Evaluation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350116740
• Artikelnr.: 58554529

Autorenporträt

Paul Booth is Professor of Communication at DePaul University, USA. Booth's research interests include fandom, new technologies and media, popular culture, and cult media. He is the author of Time on TV (2012), Digital Fandom (2010), and Playing Fans (2014). He has edited Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013), and has published numerous articles on fans, social media, and technology. He is currently enjoying a cup of coffee.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures Tables Foreword by Paul Cornell Acknowledgements Notes on Titles
Introduction: Going Forward in All Our Beliefs: Regenerating and Re-Valuing
Doctor Who Fandom Chapter One: The Concept of Evaluation in Doctor Who
Reception Case Study 1A: The Mightiest Values: Rankings of Doctor Who -
Paul Booth Case Study 1B: Fan Reaction Videos: Responding to Doctor Who -
Craig Owen Jones Dialogue 1C: Evolving Evaluation of Doctor Who - Paul
Booth and Craig Owen Jones Chapter Two: Reception History and Fan
Perceptions of Doctor Who Case Study 2A: Tegan: The Makers' Vision - Craig
Owen Jones Case Study 2B: Reception after the Fact: Companions in Big
Finish - Paul Booth Dialogue 2C: The Ends of an Era - Paul Booth and Craig
Owen Jones Chapter Three: The Error of Eras Case Study 3A: Nightmare of
Eden and the Limitations of Genre - Paul Booth Case Study 3B: The Discovery
of The Time Meddler - Craig Owen Jones Dialogue 3C: Series 24 - Craig Owen
Jones and Paul Booth Chapter Four: Re-Evaluating Value in the Canon of
Doctor Who Case Study 4A: Evaluative Changes in The Talons of Weng-Chiang -
Craig Owen Jones Case Study 4B: The Caves of Dilemma: or, The Twin
Androzani? Evaluating Value at the Poles - Paul Booth Dialogue 4C:
Minisodes and Changing Appreciation - Craig Owen Jones and Paul Booth
Conclusion: Go Forward in All of Your Beliefs, and Prove to Me that I Am
Not Mistaken in Mine Endnotes Bibliography Index