Adventures Across Space and Time

Paul Booth is Professor at DePaul University, USA. He is the author/editor of 14 books, including A Fan Studies Primer (2021), Watching Doctor Who (Bloomsbury, 2020), Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018), Digital Fandom 2.0 (2016), and Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).Matt Hills is Professor of Media and Film at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author of six books, including Fan Cultures (2002), Triumph of a Time Lord (I.B. Tauris, 2010) and Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event (2015). He has also edited two volumes about the show, New Dimensions of Doctor Who (I.B. Tauris, 2013) and Doctor Who - New Dawn: Essays on the Jodie Whittaker Era (2021).Joy Piedmont is a librarian and freelance writer based in New York, USA. She is co-producer of Reality Bomb, a Doctor Who podcast and is the co-creator and co-chair of Gallifrey One’s TARDIS Talks, a special track of programming giving space to big ideas and theories about Doctor Who and fandom.Tansy Rayner Roberts is a fantasy writer based in Australia. She is co-host of the Verity! Doctor Who Podcast. She is author of Ink Black Magic (2013), Siren Beat (2010), Seacastle (2007). She won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2013.

Over its sixty-year history, Doctor Who has inspired a vast array of commentary. The Doctor Who Reader gathers together a commendably representative range of such writing, academic and fan, classic and newly commissioned. An essential addition to the scholarship's unfolding text.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesForeword by Matthew SweetAcknowledgements List of ContributorsSection I: Into the (Transmedia) Vortex: From Dalekmania to Time Lord Victorious - Paul Booth1. Transmedia Doctor Who I From ‘Canonicity in Doctor Who’ by Paul CornellFrom ‘Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media: A Case Study in “Transmedia Storytelling”’ by Neil Perryman2. Early TV Scholarship From ‘Dr Who: Similarity and Difference’ by John TullochFrom ‘Dr Who: Ideology and the Reading of a Popular Narrative Text’ by John Fiske3. Production Insights From The Making of Doctor Who by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm HulkeFrom Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-First Century by Matt Hills4. The (In)definite Article From TARDISBound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who by Piers BrittonFrom Design for Doctor Who: Vision and Revision in Science Fiction Television by Piers Britton5. Bigger, Louder, and Now in Colour! From ‘Adapting Telefantasy: The Doctor Who and the Daleks Films’ by John R. CookFrom ‘Televisuality Without Television?: The Big Finish Audios and Discourses of “Tele-centric” Doctor Who’ by Matt Hills From Love and Monsters: The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present by Miles Booy6. The Legacy of Doctor Who Literature by Stacey Smith?7. The Doctor Who Figurine Collection by Ross Garner8. Doctor Who: Time Fracture – Process, Techniques and Principles of an Immersive Experience Production by Sarah Atkinson and Helen Kennedy9. The Costs of the Doctor: Time Lord Victorious and Managing Transmedia Engagement by Elizabeth EvansSection II Studying Doctor Who's Audiences and Fans - Matt Hills10. The Powerless EliteFrom Science Fiction Audiences by John Tulloch and Henry Jenkins11. The Powerless Elite?From ‘Keeping the Elite Powerless: Fan-Producer Relations in the “Nu Who” (and New YOU) Era’ by Leora Hadas and Limor Shifman12. The Eras of Doctor WhoFrom ‘Periodising Doctor Who’ by Paul Booth13. Political Doctor WhoFrom ‘Is Doctor Who Political?’ by Alan McKee14. Desiring Doctor WhoFrom ‘Desiring the Doctor: Identity, Gender and Genre in Online Fandom’ by Rebecca Williams15. Feminist Doctor WhoFrom ‘“Finally, we get to play the Doctor”: Feminist Female Fans’ Reactions to the First Female Doctor Who’ by Neta Yodovich16. Fans as Consumers: Psychographics and Tribalism in Doctor Who Fandom by Alison Lawson and David Lawson17. The Controversy of the Thirteenth Doctor Announcement and Doctor Who Fandom on Tumblr by Alice de Freitas Gomes and Polyana Inácio Rezende Silva18. Marginally Fannish: Fan Podcasts as Alternative Sites of Intersectional Education by Parinita Shetty19. Casual Fans and Non-Fans in Flux: The Reception of ‘Once, Upon Time’ and Doctor Who’s Return to Serialization by Dominique GagnonSection III: Doctor Who Fandom in the 21st Century - Joy Piedmont20. Tumblr Fandom Is an Unknowable Anti-Monolith Cryptid by Lena Barkin21. The Police BoxFrom ‘Doctor Who’s TARDIS Has a Different Meaning for Black Fans’ by Constance Gibbs22. Space Isn’t Always for Everyone: How Unconscious Racial Bias in Doctor Who Scripts Affects Fan Perception of Companions of Colour by Amanda-Rae Prescott23. ‘Martha Jones is a lesbian’: Queer (Re)interpretations of Companions in Doctor Who by Océane I. Nyela and Anna Young24. Fandom DIY: Doctor Who Fans in Poland by Magdalena Stonawska25. ‘The Day of The Doctor’ and ‘Flux’ in Latin America: The Relationship between BBC’s Strategies and Brazilian Whovians by Eloy Vieira and Lilian França26. Translating Doctor Who into Chinese: Fansubbing and Doctor Who Fandom in China by Ting Guo 27. The Girl Who Waited Survived: Fan Rewritings of Amy Pond by Bethan Jones28. Forks in the Fandom Road: Divergent Views on the Social Politics of Doctor Who by Talia Franks29. Postcolonial Doctor WhoFrom ‘Through Coloured Eyes: An Alternative Viewing of Postcolonial Transition’ by Vanessa de KauweSection IV: Doctor Who’s Creative Intersections - Tansy Rayner Roberts30. Fans for HireFrom ‘Douglas Adams: The First Professional Doctor Who Fan’ by Eddie Robson31. The Doctor EffectFrom ‘How Fanzines Helped Put Doctor Who Fans in Charge of Doctor Who’ by Nolan Feeney32. Fannish Origin StoriesFrom ‘Dalek-Builders’ by Peter CapaldiFrom rec.arts.drwho Post by Steven Moffat33. Poachers Turned Cartographers by Ian Potter34. Within Any Fan’s Dream From David J Richardson interviews Kate Orman35. Run Fast, Love Hard, Be Kind: Twenty Years in Doctor Who Fandom by Lynne M Thomas36. Popping into FictionFrom ‘Where To Find the Doctor in All of My Historical Fantasy Novels’ by Mary Robinette Kowal37. Sexism in FandomFrom ‘The Uncomfortable Truth About Fandom Sexism’ by Claudia Boleyn38. When Fans Become Showrunners by Julia Henken39. Scripting Fandom in 21st Century Doctor Who by Paul Driscoll40. The legacy of the fanzine Renaissance by Leslie McMurtryIndex