Time and relative dissertations in space
Subtitle: critical perspectives on Doctor Who
By: edited by David Butler.
Contributors: Butler, David, 1974-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780719076824; 9780719076817
Subjects: Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989) -- Congresses; Doctor Who (Television program : 2005- ) -- Congresses
Notes: Chiefly papers presented at a conference held July 1, 2004, University of Manchester.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-313), filmography (p.[314]-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / David Butler; title: pt. 1., An earthly programme : origins and directions. How to pilot a TARDIS : audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in Doctor Who / David Butler; title: The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who / Jonathan Bignell; title: 'Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?'  : history, pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who / Daniel O'Mahony; title: Bargains of necessity? : Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history at the BBC in the 1960s / Matthew Kilburn; title: pt. 2.,The subtext of death : narratives, themes and structures. The empire of the senses : narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who / Tat Wood; title: The ideology of anachronism : television, history and the nature of time / Alec Charles; title: Mythic identity in Doctor Who / David Rafer; title: The human factor : Daleks, the 'evil human' and Faustian legend in Doctor Who / Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens; title: pt. 3., The seeds of television production : making Doctor Who. The Filipino army's advance on Reykjavik : world-building in Studio D and its legacy / Ian Potter; title: 'Who done it' : discourses of authorship during the John Nathan-Turner era / Dave Rolinson; title: Between prosaic functionalism and sublime experimentation : Doctor Who and musical sound design / Kevin J. Donnelly; title: The music of machines : 'special sound' as music in Doctor Who / Louis Niebur; title: pt. 4., The parting of the critics : value judgements and canon formations. The talons of Robert Holmes / Andy Murray; title: Why is 'city of death' the best Doctor Who story? / Alan McKee; title: Canonicity matters : defining the Doctor Who canon / Lance Parkin; title: Broader and deeper : the lineage and impact of the Timewyrm series / Dale Smith; title: Televisuality without television? : the Big Finish audios and discourses of 'tele-centric' Doctor Who / Matt Hills; title: Afterword, My adventures / Paul Magrs.