Description
Product ID: | 9783319881133 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | CH |
Title: | Doctor Who: A British Alien? |
Authors: | Author: Danny Nicol |
Page Count: | 291 |
Subjects: | Television, Television, Cultural studies, Media studies: TV and society, Cultural studies, TV & society, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
Description: | This book argues that Doctor Who, the world’s longest-running science fiction series often considered to be about distant planets and monsters, is in reality just as much about Britain and Britishness. This book argues that Doctor Who, the world''s longest-running science fiction series often considered to be about distant planets and monsters, is in reality just as much about Britain and Britishness. Danny Nicol explores how the show, through science fiction allegory and metaphor, constructs national identity in an era in which identities are precarious, ambivalent, transient and elusive. It argues that Doctor Who''s projection of Britishness is not merely descriptive but normative-putting forward a vision of what the British ought to be. The book interrogates the substance of Doctor Who''s Britishness in terms of individualism, entrepreneurship, public service, class, gender, race and sexuality. It analyses the show''s response to the pressures on British identity wrought by devolution and separatist currents in Scotland and Wales, globalisation, foreign policy adventures and the unrelenting rise of the transnational corporation. |
Imprint Name: | Springer International Publishing AG |
Publisher Name: | Springer International Publishing AG |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-06-04 |