By Lynnette Porter
As health practitioner Who nears its fiftieth anniversary, it's very a lot part of British pop culture, and the general practitioner has turn into a British icon. however, because of BBC the USA and BBC Worldwide's business plan, in addition to the Doctor's and his partners' contemporary in-person visits to the united states, the venerable sequence is turning into extra at risk of an "American influence," together with the potential for turning into "Americanized." medical professional Who and up to date spinoffs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures provide American audiences very various insights into the Whoniverse and feature met with various levels of good fortune. while Torchwood turned a U.S.-U.K. co-production, The Sarah Jane Adventures was once principally mismarketed. To complicate issues, the interrelationships that hold the general practitioner Who franchise alive via radio dramas, audiobooks, comics, novels, etc., in the course of hiatuses in tv publicizes, can give U.S. and U.K. audiences diversified understandings of the lead characters--the surgeon, Captain Jack Harkness, and Sarah Jane Smith. even supposing the earlier decade has been an exhilarating time within the Whoniverse, the Doctor--and the franchise--are poised for one more regeneration.
Read Online or Download The Doctor Who Franchise: American Influence, Fan Culture and the Spinoffs PDF
Best film & television books
Contemporary Hollywood Stardom
Taking account of the most important advancements within the box of celebrity reviews, this publication explores the political economic climate of stardom, questions of functionality, the impact on stardom of convergence among the movie and different rest industries, and the position of audiences. The booklet combines a assessment of present developments with case reviews of person stars allowing scholars and researchers to widen their wisdom of the sector and discover new methods of impending the megastar phenomenon.
Zasu Pitts: The Life and Career
Frequently remembered for her gestures, expressive eyes, and physique language at the display, ZaSu Pitts was once an strange actress (and additionally an outstanding cook dinner: she frequently gave selfmade sweets to her coworkers, and her selection of sweet recipes was once released posthumously). This affectionate research of either her deepest existence off-screen and her public personality info how the multi-talented actress turn into one in all filmdom's favourite comediennes and personality gamers.
Video and Filmmaking as Psychotherapy: Research and Practice
Whereas movie and video has lengthy been used inside of mental perform, researchers and practitioners have in basic terms simply all started to discover some great benefits of movie and video construction as treatment. This quantity describes a burgeoning zone of psychotherapy which employs the paintings of filmmaking and electronic storytelling as a way of therapeutic sufferers of trauma and abuse.
- Ex-centric Cinema: Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology
- Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
- Dennis Potter Between Two Worlds: A Critical Reassessment
- The Place of Breath in Cinema
- Coming to Terms THE RHETORIC OF NARRATIVE IN FICTION AND FILM
- Towards a theory of montage
Extra info for The Doctor Who Franchise: American Influence, Fan Culture and the Spinoffs
Example text
The SFX article also brings up a final point well worth broadcasters’ consideration. Is a program only worthwhile to be made if it is written to gain the widest possible audience? If the objective is only to gain viewers (ratings), then a lowest-common-denominator approach to television production is highly desirable. S. ) However, SF stories often are meant to be dark, frightening, prophetic, and enlightening — all at the same time. More than any other genre, SF can safely provide audiences with multiple “alien” or “future” perspectives and ideas that challenge the current status quo.
Quotations from fans, actors, and writers throughout this book support these notions of an American national character or an American influence on television. S. K.? 1 percent) said No. Perhaps these SF television scholars are much more invested in and aware of Doctor Who than other series but have not studied or participated in the series’ fandom enough to feel comfortable making a determination. S. K. S. fan conventions may have more panels with actors and more discussion of television series.
S. K. viewers seemed to decrease appreciably. 3 million viewers watching live or on DVR the same day. S. fans long accustomed to waiting for new episodes. S. within hours of their BBC broadcast. K. to reflect more viewers watching Doctor Who’s series six premiere on DVR and iPlayer in the days following its initial broadcast, ratings for “The Impossible Astronaut” fell short of expectations. 5 million watching the episode live or soon after on iPlayer (Westbrook). K. television, but far fewer 37 38 The Doctor Who Franchise people watched the first episode of series six than series five, which introduced Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as companion Amy Pond (Cable).