Handbook The Unofficial And Unauthorised Guide To The Production Of Doctor Who

Author : David J. Howe
Publisher : TELOS
ISBN 13 : 9781903889596
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Production of Doctor Who written by David J. Howe and published by TELOS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to the production of Doctor Who from 1963 to 1996 - in one bumper volume! On their first publication, the Doctor Who Handbooks were hailed for their comprehensive behind the scenes exploration of the BBC's cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in a revised and updated edition, this book is the definitive guide to the background and production of a television classic. Authors David J Howe, Stephen James Walker and Mark Stammers spent a decade researching, and then a decade writing this acclaimed and in-depth look at the background to Doctor Who. Every Doctor's era is examined through articles and analysis, key decisions are documented, and the people involved in these decisions interviewed or quoted to create one of the most revealing behind the scenes books on the trials and tribulations of arguably the greatest cult show ever to grace Saturday evening television. Includes extensive interview quotes from all eight television Doctors, many of the actors and actresses who played their faithful companions, and literally dozens of production team members - producers, script editors, directors, designers and other behind-the-scenes staff - who brought the original series and the 1996 TV movie to the screen over a period of some thirty-three years. Features articles on the Doctor, his companions, the effects, the locations, the costume design, the script editing, the mythos behind the series and much, much more. Includes detailed script to screen examinations of one story from each for the first seven Doctors' eras, analysis of the media attention given to the series, plus an exhaustive breakdown of the production of the first three years of the show.

Author : David J. Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845839413
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook Vol 1 written by David J. Howe and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you ever wanted to know about the cult BBC Television series Doctor Who (1963-1996). On their first publication, the Doctor Who Handbooks were hailed as the best look behind the scenes of the BBC's cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in two revised and updated editions, these books are the definitive guide to the background and production of a television classic. Alongside The Television Companion, which The Handbook is designed to complement, they provide just about everything you need to know about the show, its stars, its background, its stories and its monsters. This volume focuses on the first three Doctors. There is an unparalleled production diary for the first Doctor, used as reference for the 2013 docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time, script-to-screen breakdowns of one story from each era ('The Ark', 'The Mind Robber' and 'Day of the Daleks'), and articles examining every aspect of the show, from the Doctor, to its mythology, to how it was transmitted and marketed. This is the essential companion for every trip you will ever take into the TV universe of classic Doctor Who.

Author : David J. Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845839420
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook Vol 2 written by David J. Howe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you ever wanted to know about the cult BBC Television series Doctor Who (1963-1996). On their first publication, the Doctor Who Handbooks were hailed as the best look behind the scenes of the BBC's cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in two revised and updated editions, these books are the definitive guide to the background and production of a television classic. Alongside The Television Companion, which The Handbook is designed to complement, they provide just about everything you need to know about the show, its stars, its background, its stories and its monsters. This volume focuses on the fourth to eighth Doctors. There are interviews with companions and script editors, features on locations and costumes, script-to-screen breakdowns of one story from each era ('The Brain of Morbius', 'The Five Doctors', 'Revelation of the Daleks' and 'Dragonfire'), and articles examining every aspect of the show, from the Doctor, to its mythology, to how it was transmitted and marketed. This is the essential companion for every trip you will ever take into the TV universe of classic Doctor Who.

Author : David J. Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780426205272
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Who written by David J. Howe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carey Fleiner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476666563
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Who and History written by Carey Fleiner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sydney Newman conceived the idea for Doctor Who in 1963, he envisioned a show in which the Doctor and his companions would visit and observe, but not interfere with, events in history. That plan was dropped early on and the Doctor has happily meddled with historical events for decades. This collection of new essays examines how the Doctor's engagement with history relates to Britain's colonial past, nostalgia for village life, Norse myths, alternate history, and the impact of historical decisions on the present.

Author : Cameron K. McEwan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1631060422
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unofficial Doctor Who written by Cameron K. McEwan and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unofficial Doctor Who covers the past fifty years of Doctor Who, including doppelgangers, regenerations, Gallifrey adventures, highest-rated episodes, behind-the-scenes info, and loads more.

Author : Piers D. Britton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857720090
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TARDISbound written by Piers D. Britton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Doctor Who' has always thrived on multiplicty, unpredictability and transformation, it's worlds and characters kaleidoscopic and shifting, and 'Doctor Who"s complexity has grown. With its triumphant return to TV in 2005, it was made up of four different fictional forms, across three different media, with five actors simultaneously playing the eponymous hero. 'TARDISbound' is the first book to deal both with the TV series and with the 'audio adventures', original novels, and short story anthologies produced since the 1990s, engaging with the common elements of these different texts and with distinctive features of each. 'TARDISbound' places 'Doctor Who' under a variety of lenses, from examining the leading characteristics of these 'Doctor Who' texts, to issues of class, ethnicity and gender in relation to the Doctor(s), other TARDIS crew-members, and the non-human/inhuman beings they encounter. 'TARDISbound' also addresses major questions about the aesthetics and ethical implications of 'Doctor Who'.

Author : Piers D. Britton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350116831
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Doctor Who written by Piers D. Britton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-running popular TV series Doctor Who is, Piers Britton argues, a 'uniquely design intensive text': its time-and-space-travel premise requires that designers be tirelessly imaginative in devising new worlds and entities and recreating past civilizations. While Doctor Who's attempts at worldbuilding are notorious for being hit-and-miss – old jokes about wobbly walls and sink plungers die hard – the distinctiveness of the series' design imagery is beyond question. And over the course of six decades Doctor Who has produced designs which are not only iconic but, in being repeatedly revisited and updated, have proven to be an ever-more important element in the series' identity and mythos. In the first in-depth study of Doctor Who's costumes, sets and graphics, Piers Britton offers an historical overview of both the original and the revived series, explores theoretical frameworks for evaluating Doctor Who design, and provides detailed analysis of key images. Case studies include the visual morphology of Doctor Who's historical adventures, the evaluative character of cosplay, and the ongoing significance for the Doctor Who brand of such high-profile designs as the Daleks and the TARDIS interior, the 'time-tunnel' title sequence, and the costumes of the Fourth and Thirteenth Doctors.

Author : Gillian I. Leitch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602247
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Who in Time and Space written by Gillian I. Leitch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fresh essays addresses a broad range of topics in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, both old (1963-1989) and new (2005-present). The book begins with the fan: There are essays on how the show is viewed and identified with, fan interactions with each other, reactions to changes, the wilderness years when it wasn't in production. Essays then look at the ways in which the stories are told (e.g., their timeliness, their use of time travel as a device, etc.). After discussing the stories and devices and themes, the essays turn to looking at the Doctor's female companions and how they evolve, are used, and changed by their journey with the Doctor.

Author : Gillian I. Leitch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624127
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Travels with the Doctor? written by Gillian I. Leitch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the long-running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely been alone--his companions are essential. Male or (mostly) female, alien or (mostly) human, young or old (none as old as he), the dozens of companions who have travelled with him over the past 50 years have served as sympathetic proxies for the audience. Through their adventures the companions are perfected, facing danger and thus discovering their strengths and weaknesses. Yet they all pay a price, losing their innocence and sometimes their lives. This collection of new essays examines the role of the companion as an intermediate between viewers and the Doctor. The contributors discuss who travels with the Doctor and why, how they interact, how the companions influence the narrative and how their journeys change them.