Ebook: New dimensions of Doctor Who: adventures in space, time and television

Contributors; acknowledgements; introduction: doctor who studies?; part i. new doctor who; 1. a good score goes to war: multiculturalism, monsters and music in new doctor who; 2. making 'a superior brand of alien mastermind': doctor who monsters and the rhetoric of (re)design; 3. the cybermen as human. 2; 4. talking to the tardis; part ii. new television, new media; 5. doctor who as programme brand; 6. on speed: the ordering of time and pace of action in doctor who; 7. learning with the doctor: pedagogic strategies in transmedia doctor who.;The Doctor may have regenerated on many occasions, but so too has Doctor Who. Moving with the times, the show has evolved across fifty years. New Dimensions of Doctor Who brings together experts on the Doctors, on TV brands, bioethics, transmedia, and cultural icons to explore contemporary developments in the series' music, design and representations of technology, plus issues of showrunner authority and star authorship. Putting these new dimensions into context means thinking about changes in the TV industry such as the rise of branding and transmedia storytelling. Along with its faster na.