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Who travels with the Doctor? : essays on the companions of Doctor Who
- Title
- Who travels with the Doctor? : essays on the companions of Doctor Who / edited by Gillian I. Leitch and Sherry Ginn.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
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- Description
- viii, 170 pages : illustration; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163), filmography (pages 151-156) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction; comrade, confidante, companion, chum: a friend by any other name / Gillian I. Leitch and Sherry Ginn -- With whom he travels: the companions of the doctor / Gillian I. Leitch -- "It's bigger on the inside": verisimilitude and companion reactions to the tardis / Craig Owen Jones -- "The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can't control": disability and the female bodies of the doctor's companions / Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman -- "There's nothing only about being a girl": learning to "play" the doctor's companion / David Boarder Giles and Amy Peloff -- Life "post/tardis" the case for Jo Grant and Sarah Jane Smith / Sherry Ginn -- Rose is England: nationhood, British invasion anxiety and why the doctor will (almost) always rescue his companions / Tanja Nathanael -- Rory Williams: the boy who waited / Teresa Forde -- A muted melody: the (dis)empowerment of river song / Tom Powers -- Companions who weren't: the pompadour and the pauper / Pamela Achenbach -- When no one can hear you scream: Doctor Who companions on the printed page / Aaron John Gulyas.
- Call Number
- MWGV (Great Britain) 16-4182
- ISBN
- 9780786495252
- 0786495251
- LCCN
- 2016011763
- OCLC
- 933438409
- Title
- Who travels with the Doctor? : essays on the companions of Doctor Who / edited by Gillian I. Leitch and Sherry Ginn.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163), filmography (pages 151-156) and index.
- Added Author
- Leitch, Gillian I., 1967- editor.Ginn, Sherry, editor.
- Research Call Number
- MWGV (Great Britain) 16-4182