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Once Upon a Time Lord: The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who
Ivan Phillips
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Description for Once Upon a Time Lord: The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who
Paperback. "We're all stories in the end", said the Doctor in 'The Big Bang'. Stories are, fundamentally, what Doctor Who is all about. Series: Who Watching. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
‘Every story ever told really happened...’ (The Doctor, ‘Hell Bent’, 2015) Stories are, fundamentally what Doctor Who is all about. In Once Upon a Time Lord, Ivan Phillips explores a wide range of perspectives on these stories and presents a lively and richly-varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with ‘classic’ and ‘new’ Who, Phillips looks at how aspects of the Time Lord’s story have been developed on television and beyond, tracing lines of connection and divergence across various media. He discusses Doctor Who as a mythology that has drawn ... Read more
‘Every story ever told really happened...’ (The Doctor, ‘Hell Bent’, 2015) Stories are, fundamentally what Doctor Who is all about. In Once Upon a Time Lord, Ivan Phillips explores a wide range of perspectives on these stories and presents a lively and richly-varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with ‘classic’ and ‘new’ Who, Phillips looks at how aspects of the Time Lord’s story have been developed on television and beyond, tracing lines of connection and divergence across various media. He discusses Doctor Who as a mythology that has drawn ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Series
Who Watching
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784532673
SKU
V9781784532673
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Ref
99-50
About Ivan Phillips
Ivan Phillips is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on popular culture, art and literature, with a particular interest in science fiction and the Gothic. He reviews for the journal Critical Studies in Television and contributed a chapter to Paul Booth’s Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).
Reviews for Once Upon a Time Lord: The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who
Phillips’s deep and engaged prose pokes and prods at the myths that have formed around Doctor Who in popular culture, as well as teasing apart the ways in which the stories about the Doctor have rested on and developed from classic mythological tropes … [his] erudite analysis throughout the book establishes clear insight into Doctor Who and its importance for ... Read more