Doctor Who – New Dawn (EPUB) von Brigid Cherry

Introduction: new dawn, new moment Brigid Cherry, Matt Hills and Andrew ODay
Part I: Creating Thirteen
1 Variations on a theme: temporal and cultural diversity in Segun Akinolas music forDoctor Who David Butler
2 She is wise and unafraid: writing the first female Doctor and a diverse universe for her to protect Rosanne Welch
3 Shooting stars: modes of TV spectacle in the Jodie Whittaker era ofDoctor Who Dene October
4 About time: addressing intersectionality in the casting and performance of Chris Chibnall/Jodie Whittaker eraDoctor Who Christopher Hogg
Part II: DiversifyingDoctor Who
5 Casual queerness and desire lines inDoctor Who Lorna Jowett
6 Postracial amnesia:Doctor Who in the Brexit era Susana Loza
7 All in the fam: interrogating kinship networks with the thirteenth Doctor Hannah Hamad
Part III: Fan responses
8 Doctor Whumour: internet meme culture, Chris ChibnallsDoctor Who and fan mockery Brigid Cherry
9 Braces, culottes and coloured stripes: constructing and characterizingDoctor Whos Thirteen in fashion design and cosplay Nicolle Lamerichs
10 Regendering and the chaos of translation: fan practices and reception of the female Doctor in Spanish fandom Saida Herrero
Part IV: Beyond the text
11 By any other name: gender andDoctor Who Barbie dolls, adventure dolls and 1:6 scale figures Victoria L. Godwin
12 Outside the box in the Chris Chibnall/Jodie Whittaker era:Doctor Whos experience economy and tourism Paul Booth
13 The thirteenth Doctor during UK lockdown: paratexts of hope and care Matt Hills
Index

Doctor Who new dawn explores the latest cultural moment in this long-running BBC TV series: the casting of a female lead. Analysing showrunner Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittakers era means considering contemporaryDoctor Who as an inclusive, regendered brand. Featuring original interview material with cast members, this edited collection also includes an in-depth discussion with Segun Akinola, composer of the iconic theme tunes current version.

The book critically address the series representations of diversity, as well as fan responses to the thirteenth Doctor via the likes of memes, cosplay and even translation into Spanish as a grammatically gendered language. In addition, concluding essays look at how this moment ofWho has been merchandised, especially via the experience economy, and how official/unofficial reactions to UK lockdown helped the show to further re-emphasise its public-service potential.

Brigid Cherry, PhD, is an independent scholar, retired from the position of Research Fellow in Screen Media at St Marys University
Matt Hills, PhD, is Professor of Media and Film at the University of Huddersfield
Andrew ODay, PhD, is an independent scholar