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Dancing with the Doctor: Dimensions of Gender in the Doctor Who Universe
Lorna Jowett
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Description for Dancing with the Doctor: Dimensions of Gender in the Doctor Who Universe
Paperback. Widespread conversations and criticisms continue about the ways in which Doctor Who represents gender. 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. Series: Who Watching. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT; FLS; JFSF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades. She considers the showrunners, directors, producers and writers and the problems this flagship science fiction series has had in offering alternative gender models. 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 elements of the successful BBC franchise.
Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades. She considers the showrunners, directors, producers and writers and the problems this flagship science fiction series has had in offering alternative gender models. 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 elements of the successful BBC franchise.
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Who Watching
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784533748
SKU
V9781784533748
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Ref
99-5
About Lorna Jowett
Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton. 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. Tauris), and author of Sex and the Slayer: A ... Read more
Reviews for Dancing with the Doctor: Dimensions of Gender in the Doctor Who Universe
'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.' - ... Read more