Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader

Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader was was an anthology book published by Bloomsbury in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Publisher's summary
Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse.

The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and cultural changes over its 60 year lifetime. Adventures Across Space and Time presents classic writings on Who and its fandom by leading scholars including John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch and Matt Hills, but also represents writings and art by fans, including fans who went on to become showrunners, writers or even the Doctor himself, with contributions by Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, Douglas Adams and Peter Capaldi.

This innovative anthology addresses Doctor Who's showrunners, Doctors, companions, enemies and collaborators as well as issues and debates around queer fandom, intersectionality, the 'wokeness' of the Doctor, fan media including websites, podcasts and vlogs, fan activism and questions of race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin offs. It considers Doctor Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but also one that has delighted, engaged and sometimes enraged viewers around the world.

Table of Content

 * List of Illustrations
 * List of Tables
 * Foreword by Matthew Sweet
 * Acknowledgements
 * List of Contributors

Section I: Into the (Transmedia) Vortex: From Dalekmania to Time Lord Victorious - Paul Booth

1. Transmedia Doctor Who I
 * From Canonicity in Doctor Who by Paul Cornell
 * From Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media: A Case Study in “Transmedia Storytelling” by Neil Perryman

2. Early TV Scholarship
 * From Dr Who: Similarity and Difference by John Tulloch
 * From Dr Who: Ideology and the Reading of a Popular Narrative Text by John Fiske

3. Production Insights
 * From The Making of Doctor Who by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke
 * From Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-First Century by Matt Hills

4. The (In)definite Article
 * From TARDISBound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who by Piers Britton
 * From Design for Doctor Who: Vision and Revision in Science Fiction Television by Piers Britton

5. Bigger, Louder, and Now in Colour!
 * From Adapting Telefantasy: The Doctor Who and the Daleks Films by John R. Cook
 * From Televisuality Without Television?: The Big Finish Audios and Discourses of “Tele-centric” Doctor Who by Matt Hills
 * From Love and Monsters: The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present by Miles Booy

6. The Legacy of Doctor Who Literature by Stacey Smith?

7. The Doctor Who Figurine Collection by Ross Garner

8. Doctor Who: Time Fracture – Process, Techniques and Principles of an Immersive Experience Production by Sarah Atkinson and Helen Kennedy

9. The Costs of the Doctor: Time Lord Victorious and Managing Transmedia Engagement by Elizabeth Evans

Section II Studying Doctor Whos Audiences and Fans - Matt Hills'

10. The Powerless Elite
 * From Science Fiction Audiences by John Tulloch and Henry Jenkins

11. The Powerless Elite?
 * From Keeping the Elite Powerless: Fan-Producer Relations in the “Nu Who” (and New YOU) Era by Leora Hadas and Limor Shifman

12. The Eras of Doctor Who
 * From Periodising ''Doctor Who by Paul Booth

13. Political Doctor Who
 * From Is Doctor Who Political? by Alan McKee

14. Desiring Doctor Who
 * From Desiring the Doctor: Identity, Gender and Genre in Online Fandom by Rebecca Williams

15. Feminist Doctor Who
 * From '“Finally, we get to play the Doctor”: Feminist Female Fans' Reactions to the First Female Doctor Who' by Neta Yodovich

16. Fans as Consumers: Psychographics and Tribalism in Doctor Who Fandom by Alison Lawson and David Lawson

17. The Controversy of the Thirteenth Doctor Announcement and Doctor Who Fandom on Tumblr by Alice de Freitas Gomes and Polyana Inácio Rezende Silva

18. Marginally Fannish: Fan Podcasts as Alternative Sites of Intersectional Education by Parinita Shetty

19. Casual Fans and Non-Fans in Flux: The Reception of 'Once, Upon Time' and Doctor Who's Return to Serialization by Dominique Gagnon

'Section III: Doctor Who'' Fandom in the 21st Century - Joy Piedmont

20. Tumblr Fandom Is an Unknowable Anti-Monolith Cryptid by Lena Barkin

21. The Police Box
 * From Doctor Who's TARDIS Has a Different Meaning for Black Fans by Constance Gibbs

22. Space Isn't Always for Everyone: How Unconscious Racial Bias in Doctor Who Scripts Affects Fan Perception of Companions of Colour by Amanda-Rae Prescott

23. Martha Jones is a lesbian: Queer (Re)interpretations of Companions in Doctor Who by Océane I. Nyela and Anna Young

24. Fandom DIY: Doctor Who Fans in Poland by Magdalena Stonawska

25. 'The Day of The Doctor' and 'Flux' in Latin America: The Relationship between BBC's Strategies and Brazilian Whovians by Eloy Vieira and Lilian França

26. Translating Doctor Who into Chinese: Fansubbing and Doctor Who Fandom in China by Ting Guo

27. The Girl Who Waited Survived: Fan Rewritings of Amy Pond by Bethan Jones

28. Forks in the Fandom Road: Divergent Views on the Social Politics of Doctor Who by Talia Franks

29. Postcolonial Doctor Who
 * From Through Coloured Eyes: An Alternative Viewing of Postcolonial Transition by Vanessa de Kauwe

Section IV: ''Doctor Whos Creative Intersections - Tansy Rayner Roberts

30. Fans for Hire
 * From Douglas Adams: The First Professional Doctor Who Fan by Eddie Robson

31. The Doctor Effect
 * From How Fanzines Helped Put Doctor Who Fans in Charge of Doctor Who by Nolan Feeney

32. Fannish Origin Stories
 * From Dalek-Builders by Peter Capaldi
 * From rec.arts.drwho Post by Steven Moffat

33. Poachers Turned Cartographers by Ian Potter

34. Within Any Fan's Dream
 * From David J Richardson interviews Kate Orman

35. Run Fast, Love Hard, Be Kind: Twenty Years in Doctor Who Fandom by Lynne M Thomas

36. Popping into Fiction
 * From Where To Find the Doctor in All of My Historical Fantasy Novels by Mary Robinette Kowal

37. Sexism in Fandom
 * From The Uncomfortable Truth About Fandom Sexism by Claudia Boleyn

38. When Fans Become Showrunners by Julia Henken

39. Scripting Fandom in 21st Century Doctor Who by Paul Driscoll

40. The legacy of the fanzine Renaissance by Leslie McMurtry

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