Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader

Adventures Across Space and Time is a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse, featuring classic writings on Doctor Who and its fandom, as well as newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates. It explores the show's showrunners, Doctors, companions, enemies, and collaborators, as well as issues and debates around queer fandom, intersectionality, the wokeness of the Doctor, fan media, fan activism, and race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin-offs.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Adventures Across Space and Time is a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse, combining key academic, critic, and fan writings about Doctor Who with newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates. The BBC series, which has been running for 60 years, holds a unique place in the history of television and TV fandom, tracking social and cultural changes over its lifetime. The anthology features classic writings on Who and its fandom by leading scholars such as John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch, and Matt Hills, as well as contributions by fans, including showrunners, writers, and the Doctor himself. It addresses issues and debates around queer fandom, intersectionality, the wokeness of the Doctor, fan media, fan activism, and questions of race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin-offs. While primarily focused on the British phenomenon, Adventures Across Space and Time also considers the show's global impact and the diverse range of viewers it has delighted, engaged, and sometimes enraged.

Weight: 536g
Dimension: 246 x 189 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350288386