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Zusatztext An entertaining and informative history and examination of Doctor Who fandom and criticism. I recommended it for anyone who ever debated their favourite Doctor … or companion … or monster – in other words, for all Doctor Who fans. Informationen zum Autor Paul Booth is Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University, USA. He has published or edited more than ten books, including the Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018); Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience (2016); Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Board Games as Media (Bloomsbury, 2021). Craig Owen Jones is a lecturer at San Jose State University, USA, and an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Music and Media, Bangor University, Wales. He has written four books and over 30 articles on TV and film studies, music, history, and literary criticism. Klappentext Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over the over fifty-year history of the show, Watching Doctor Who explores fandom's changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series. 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 changingnature 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 . With a foreword by Paul Cornell. Vorwort A compelling and richly-detailed study of Doctor Who fandom across the show's long history Zusammenfassung Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over the over fifty-year history of the show, Watching Doctor Who explores fandom’s changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV series. 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 changingnature 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 . With a foreword by Paul Cornell. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures Tables Foreword by Paul Cornell Acknowledgements Notes on Titles Introduction: Going Forward in All Our Beliefs: Regenerating and Re-Valuing Doctor Who Fandom Chapter One: The Concept of Evaluation in Doctor Who Reception Case Study 1A: The Mightiest Values: Rankings of Doctor Who - Paul Booth Case Study 1B: Fan Reaction Videos: Responding to Doctor Who - Craig Owen Jones Dialogue 1C: Evolving Evaluation of Doctor Who - Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones Chapter Two: Reception History and Fan Perceptions of Doctor Who Case Study 2A: Tegan: The Makers' Vision - Craig Owen Jones Case Study 2B: Reception after the Fact: Companions in Big Finish - Paul Booth Dialogue 2C: The Ends of an Era - Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones Chapter Three: The Error of Eras Case Study 3A: Nightmare of Eden and the Limitations of Genre - Paul Booth Case Study 3B: The Discovery of The Time Meddler - Craig Owen Jones Dialogue 3C: Series 24 - Craig Owen Jones and Paul Booth Chapter Four: Re-Evaluating Value in the Canon of Doctor Who C...
