num_pages: 248
description: The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who is a volume of essays examining the abundant mythological elements underpinning the 50-year-run of the popular BBC television series Doctor Who. Contributors include a well known Doctor Who novelist, an organizer of one of the largest Doctor Who communities, plus several university scholars and Editors from Myth Ink Books. Explore the universe of The Doctor as seen through the eyes of myth and legend.Foreword: Dream the Myth OnwardsSimon GuerrierPreface: The Mythology of a LegendBarnaby EdwardsChapter1:Canon, Myth and Memory in Doctor Who C.B. HarveyChapter2: Holy Terror and Fallen Demigod: The Doctor as MythNeil ClarkeChapter 3:I Am Vengeance, I Am the Night, I Am . . . the Doctor? Leslie McMurtry Chapter 4:A Professor’s lesson for the Doctor: The Doctor’s sub-creative journey toward Middle-earth Anthony S. BurdgeChapter 5:Life During Wartime: An Analysis of Wartime Morality in Doctor Who Melissa BeattieChapter 6:“It Turns Out they Died for Nothing”: Doctor Who and the Idea of Sacrificial DeathMelody GreenChapter 7:Doctor Who and the Valkyrie Tradition, Part 1: The Valiant Child and the Bad Wolf Kristine LarsenChapter 8:Doctor Who and the Valkyrie Tradition, Part 2: Goddesses, Battle Demons, Wives and DaughtersJessica BurkeChapter 9:The Doctor or the (post) modern Prometheus (tentatively titled) Vincent O’BrienChapter 10: “Mythology makes you feel something”: The Russell T. Davies Era as sentimental JourneyMatt HillsAfterword:Anne Petty
language: English
title: The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who
publisher: Myth Ink Books