Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text"Doctor Who: the unfolding text is the first serious analysis of the BBC's longest-running fictional programme. Based on interviews with the artists and production staff involved with the programme since 1963, it investigates how industrial, institutional, narrative, professional and other forces originally existing outside Doctor Who have operated to shape the series. It examines the program's origins in the BBC's attempt to compete with commercial television, and its ability to draw on a variety of codes of performance as well as a range of genres. [...] Doctor Who: the unfolding text elucidates through practical demonstration analytical approaches for the student and teacher of media studies, offers valuable information for the fan, and provides intriguing insight for the general reader into the adventures of television's most famous time-lord." -- from the publisher's description. |
Contents
Television Discourse and Institution | 13 |
Narrative Similarity and Difference | 61 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy | 99 |
Copyright | |
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