Watching Doctor Who: Fan Reception and Evaluation

· Bloomsbury Publishing
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Watching Doctor Who explores fandom's changing attitudes towards Doctor Who. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans' values of Doctor Who change over time? As a show with an over fifty-year history, Doctor Who helps us understand the changing nature of notions of 'value' and 'quality' in popular television. The authors interrogate the way Doctor Who fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular episodes, Doctors, companions, and eras of Who.

With a foreword by Paul Cornell.

About the author

Paul Booth is Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at De Paul University, USA. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018); Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience (2016); Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Craig Owen Jones is a lecturer at San Jose State University, USA, and an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Music and Media, Bangor University, Wales. He has written three books and over 30 articles on TV and film studies, music, history, and literary criticism.

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