EAN: 9783319881133

DOCTOR WHO A BRITISH ALIEN? - DANNY NICOL KARTO...

This book argues that Doctor Who   the world's longest-running science fiction series often
considered to be about distant planets and monsters  is in reality just as much about Britain
and Britishness. Danny Nicol explores how the show  through science fiction allegory and
metaphor  constructs national identity in an era in which identities are precarious  ambivalent
transient and elusive. It argues that Doctor Who's projection of Britishness is not merely
descriptive but normative-putting forward a vision of what the British ought to be. The book
interrogates the substance of Doctor Who's Britishness in terms of individualism 
entrepreneurship  public service  class  gender  race and sexuality. It analyses the show's
response to the pressures on British identity wrought by devolution and separatist currents in
Scotland and Wales  globalisation  foreign policy adventures and the unrelenting rise of the
transnational corporation.

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