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Doctor Who: A British Alien? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Doctor Who: A British Alien? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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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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