Doctor Who: A British Alien?

• Main Author: Nicol, Danny (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Ethnology-Europe.; Communication.; Screen Studies.; British Politics.; British Culture.; Media Studies.

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...

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.