F I L M & M E D I A - Television
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Watching Doctor Who
Power and Passion in Game of Thrones Carolyne Larrington, University of Oxford, UK
Fan Reception and Evaluation Paul Booth, DePaul University, USA & Craig Owen Jones, San Jose State University, USA Watching Doctor Who explores fandom’s changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series during its over-50 year history. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans’ values of Doctor Who change over time? As a show that's featured as part of the shared landscape of home entertainment since the 1960s, Doctor Who helps us understand the changing nature of notions of ‘value’ and ‘quality’ in popular television. Through a series of in-depth case studies of fan polls and debates, Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones interrogate the way Doctor Who fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular episodes, Doctors, companions, and eras of Who.
In Game of Thrones, potent and intimate narratives of love and passion can be found within the grand landscapes of heroism, honour and death. In this vital follow-up to Winter Is Coming (2015), acclaimed medievalist Carolyne Larrington explores themes of power, blood-kin, lust and sex in order to put entirely fresh meanings on the show of the century. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 272 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781784539320 • £12.99 / $17.95 ePub 9781350141537 • £11.69 / $14.77 ePdf 9781350141544 • £11.69 / $14.77 Bloomsbury Academic
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UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 216 pages PB 9781350185630 • £19.99 / $26.95 Previously published in HB 9781350116764 ePub 9781350116740 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350116733 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Who Watching • Bloomsbury Academic
Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky, USA Weaving together personal memoir and social history, reflecting on key moments in the history of TV programming, the evolution of the material object that once was a “set” and now dominates entire rooms, and how TV has been depicted in movies such as Avalon, Broadcast News and Network, Susan Bordo opens up the 75 year-old time-capsule that is TV as it has shaped habits of consumption, ethical values, social relations, and our very ability to discriminate between the scripted and the spontaneous, the factual and the spun, image and reality.
Design for Doctor Who
World-building and Visual Style Piers D. Britton, University of Redlands, Southern California, USA Piers Britton provides the first in-depth study of Doctor Who's design and the way the show constructs unique visual worlds. Tracing Doctor Who's design history from its inception in 1963 through to the present day, and following its production journey from London to its current home in Cardiff, Britton explores how the show's designers have created settings from Elizabethan England to the end of the universe, the distinctive costumes of the individual Doctors and his companions, and the extraordinary prosthetics of the Doctor's allies and opponents from across the galaxies.
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 160 pages PB 9781501362521 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501362538 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501362545 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781472984159 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350116870 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350116832 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350116825 • £19.79 / $24.63 Series: Who Watching • Bloomsbury Academic
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