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A lavish coffee table book from the BBC, Marcus Hearn's The Vault, provides a cornucopia of Doctor Who history and memorabilia, including unpublished material from the BBC archive and private collectors. Hearn takes the reader on a well-informed textual journey from 1963 to 2013, supplemented by numerous colour and black-and-white illustrations of costumes, set designs, letters and scripts, as well as characters and scenes from the series James Goss and Steve Tribe have extensive Doctor Who lineage in writing and fandom, which they put to good use in The Doctor - His Lives and Times. Goss and Tribe assiduously follow the Doctor Who trail, but it is their behind-the-scenes coverage, through numerous short interviews, termed "brief encounters", with writers, actors and support crew, that gives it a fresh appeal. Look out for world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the 1966 episodes of The War Machines, Neil Gaiman on The Tomb of the Cybermen and Bernard Cribbins on the daleks. | A lavish coffee table book from the BBC, Marcus Hearn's The Vault, provides a cornucopia of Doctor Who history and memorabilia, including unpublished material from the BBC archive and private collectors. Hearn takes the reader on a well-informed textual journey from 1963 to 2013, supplemented by numerous colour and black-and-white illustrations of costumes, set designs, letters and scripts, as well as characters and scenes from the series James Goss and Steve Tribe have extensive Doctor Who lineage in writing and fandom, which they put to good use in The Doctor - His Lives and Times. Goss and Tribe assiduously follow the Doctor Who trail, but it is their behind-the-scenes coverage, through numerous short interviews, termed "brief encounters", with writers, actors and support crew, that gives it a fresh appeal. Look out for world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the 1966 episodes of The War Machines, Neil Gaiman on The Tomb of the Cybermen and Bernard Cribbins on the daleks. | ||
| − | James Chapman says since the 2006 edition of Inside the Tardis, "the field of Doctor Who scholarship has expanded almost as fast as the universe itself". Hills' New Dimensions of Doctor Who and Kevin S. | + | James Chapman says since the 2006 edition of Inside the Tardis, "the field of Doctor Who scholarship has expanded almost as fast as the universe itself". Hills' New Dimensions of Doctor Who and Kevin S. Decker's Who is Who? The Philosophy of Doctor Who attest to that scholarship, although some of the essays included in New Dimensions wander into some arcane corridors of academic scholarship. Hills, professor of Film and TV Studies at Aberystwyth University, brings together 11 contributors most of whom are academics at British universities, teaching cultural and media studies. |
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| − | Decker's Who is Who? The Philosophy of Doctor Who attest to that scholarship, although some of the essays included in New Dimensions wander into some arcane corridors of academic scholarship. Hills, professor of Film and TV Studies at Aberystwyth University, brings together 11 contributors most of whom are academics at British universities, teaching cultural and media studies. | ||
One of the problems is that the authors fall between writing for an academic reward system, with consequent disciplinary insularity, and a popular readership. Thus, Ross Garner, In Remembering Sarah Jane, produces a piece replete with phrases, such as, "the world of a television program can be considered as an intradiegetic allusion that opens up space for nostalgia to enter into reading positions" and that "the embodied presence" of Elisabeth Sladen, as Sarah Jane, gave the fans, "ontological security". | One of the problems is that the authors fall between writing for an academic reward system, with consequent disciplinary insularity, and a popular readership. Thus, Ross Garner, In Remembering Sarah Jane, produces a piece replete with phrases, such as, "the world of a television program can be considered as an intradiegetic allusion that opens up space for nostalgia to enter into reading positions" and that "the embodied presence" of Elisabeth Sladen, as Sarah Jane, gave the fans, "ontological security". | ||
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