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  title info:
    title: Doctor Who: A British Alien?
  name:
    name part: Nicol, Danny.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 291 p. 10 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 1. Whonited Kingdom -- 2. "One Tiny, Damp Little Island": Doctor Who's Construction of Britishness -- 3. "Lots of Planets Have A North!" Scottishness, Welshness and Northernness in Doctor Who -- 4. "The Enemy of the World": globalised law versus British Self-government -- 5. Is the Doctor a War Criminal? -- 6. From Davos to Davros: corporate power in Britain and in Doctor Who -- 7. Conclusion: Doctor Who's post-democratic Britain.
  note: by Danny Nicol.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures and television
  subject:
    topic: Great Britain-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology-Europe
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Screen Studies
  subject:
    topic: British Politics
  subject:
    topic: British Culture
  subject:
    topic: Media Studies
  classification: PN1992.63
  classification: 791.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319658346
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65834-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 180202
    record change date: 20191022002442.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-65834-6