COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; NOTE ON AUTHORS' RESPONSIBILITY; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Bigger on the inside; CHAPTER TWO Fathers and daughters: Father's Day and The Parting of the Ways; CHAPTER THREE The Doctor and the two World Wars: The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances; CHAPTER FOUR Doctor Who as romance: The Girl in the Fireplace and Vincent and the Doctor; CHAPTER FIVE Life and death in Doctor Who: Blink and The Angels Take Manhattan; CHAPTER SIX Words, symbols, and magic: the Doctor meets "the bard."
CHAPTER SEVEN Framing mystery: the Doctor meets Agatha ChristieCHAPTER EIGHT Inside the whale: The Beast Below; CHAPTER NINE Ordinary stories: The Lodger; CHAPTER TEN Madman in a box: The Doctor's Wife; CHAPTER ELEVEN Every time we say goodbye: Closing Time; CHAPTER TWELVE The story of Amelia Pond; CONCLUSION Feeling time: narrative and the inner world; REFERENCES; APPENDIX I List of Doctor Who episodes and seriescited; APPENDIX II List of television programmes and films cited; INDEX.
Summary
As Doctor Who approaches its fiftieth anniversary recent series have taken the show to new heights in terms of popular appeal and critical acclaim. The Doctor and his TARDIS-driven adventures, along with companions and iconic monsters, are now recognised and enjoyed globally. The time is ripe for a detailed analytic assessment of this cultural phenomenon. Focussing on the most recent television output The Inner World of Doctor Who examines why the show continues to fascinate contemporary audiences. Presenting closely-observed psychoanalytic readings of selected episodes, this book examines why t.