Heroism in Doctor Who

Dr. Maria-Xenia Hardt

doi:10.5771/9783956509841

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95650-983-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95650-984-1
Publisher: Ergon, Baden-Baden
Series: Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen
Volume: 19
Language: English
Pages: 321
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 10 Download chapter (PDF)
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1. 1.1 The Temporal Paradox of Heroes
2. 1.2 Outside the Box: The Heroic in Doctor Who beyond Campbell and Other Conventions
3. 1.3 Processes of Heroization and Heroic Moments in Doctor Who
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1. 1. 1. 2.1.1 Immediate Reception in the 1960s and Early 1970s
  2. 1. 2.2.1 The Ten-Year Anniversary (1973)
    2. 2.2.2 From Individual to Social Memory
    3. 2.2.3 The Twenty-Year Anniversary (1983)
  3. 1. 2.3.1 Nostalgia as Collective Memory
    2. 2.3.2 Remembering the Doctor 1989–2005
  4. 1. 2.4.1 The Return as Reinvention
    2. 2.4.2 Inflation of the Heroic I: Hero(es) by Default (2006–2013)
    3. 2.4.3 Heroic Diversification: The Greatest Hero, the British Hero, a Darker Hero
    4. 2.4.4 Inflation of the Heroic II: Twitter as a Hero-Machine (2015–2017)
  5. 2.5 Celebrating the Doctor: Building the Legacy
  6. 2.6 Re-Considering the Doctor: Looking Back at Classic Who from the Twenty-First Century
  7. 2.7 Making the Doctor: Concluding Remarks
2. 1. 1. 3.1.1 Heroic and Narrative Agency as Emancipation
    2. 3.1.2 The Doctor’s Companions: Secondary Women in a Conservative Narrative Formula
  2. 3.2 Damsels in Distress: Early Companions in the 1960s
  3. 1. 3.3.1 Second-Wave Feminism: Liz Shaw (1970)
    2. 3.3.2 Second-Wave Feminism Light: Sarah Jane Smith (1973–1976)
    3. 3.3.3 A Time Lady and Her Degeneration: Romana I and II (1978–1981)
    4. 3.3.4 Precursor of ‘New’ Who Companions: Ace (1987–1989)
  4. 3.4 One for the Dads: Doctor Who and the Male Gaze
  5. 1. 3.5.1 Rose, Martha, Donna and the Relationship Trap (2005–2008)
    2. 3.5.2 Amy and the Co-Dependency Trap (2010–2012)
    3. 3.5.3 River Song and the Action-Heroine Trap (2010–2012)
  6. 1. 3.6.1 Clara as ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girl’ (2012/2013)
    2. 3.6.2 Becoming ‘Clara Who’ (2014/2015)
  7. 1. 3.7.1 Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor: Reception
    2. 3.7.2 Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor: Performance
  8. 3.8 Re-Writing the Doctor’s Past (2020)
  9. 3.9 The Heroization of Women as Hegemonic Negotiation
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1. 1. 4.1 (Re-)Constructing History in Popular Culture: Popular Memory and the Heroic
  2. 4.2 Doctor Who, History and the Heroic
  3. 4.3 The Narrative Set-Up of Heroic Moments at Turning Points of History
  4. 4.4 History, the Heroic and the State of the Nation
  5. 4.5 Artist Heroes and/in Cultural Production
  6. 4.6 Shaping the Present through the Past, and the Past from the Present
2. 1. 5.1 Post-Apocalypse, Extreme Fiction and the Futurity of the Present as Heroic Spaces
  2. 5.2 Doctor Who, the Future and the Heroic
  3. 1. 5.3.1 Preventing Environmental Disaster
    2. 5.3.2 Protecting Democracy and Truth in a Digital World
  4. 1. 5.4.1 It’s a Revolution!
    2. 5.4.2 Peace between the Races
  5. 1. 5.5.1 The Failure of (Conventional) Heroism in the Post-Apocalypse
    2. 5.5.2 The Reinvention of Heroism for the Post-Apocalypse
    3. 5.5.3 The Doctor as a Post-Apocalyptic Hero
  6. 5.6 Facing the Present from the Future
3. 6. Heroism in Doctor Who
Appendix: Glossary, Notable Characters and Production StaffPages 285 - 288 Download chapter (PDF)
Works CitedPages 289 - 318 Download chapter (PDF)
IndexPages 319 - 321 Download chapter (PDF)