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Doctor Who and the art of adaptation : fifty years of storytelling /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harmes, Marcus K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Series:Science fiction television.
Subjects:
Doctor Who (Television program : 1963-1989)
Doctor Who (Television program : 2005- )
History on television.
Television and history.
Science fiction television programs > Great Britain > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning
  • What gets adapted?
  • Who was adapting?
  • Motives for adapting
  • A classical education: adapting history in Doctor Who
  • Victorian worlds in Doctor Who
  • Gothic themes and creative tensions
  • British westerns, American frontiers, and a marketing strategy
  • Who-dunit? Agatha Christie in time and space
  • Tragedy, the Jacobeans' and Evelyn Waugh
  • Conclusion.