TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who
Piers D. Britton
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1845119258
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
15. 127.Ibid. 128.Laura Mulvey, ‘Afterthoughts’, p. 34. 129.Ibid. 130.Ibid.: p. 33. 131.Neale, ‘Masculinity as Spectacle’, p. 15. 132.‘The Time Warrior’, 1974. 133.Jennifer Craik, The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion (London and New York, 1994), p. 170. 134.Britton and Barker, Reading Between Designs, p. 195. 135.Steven Cohan, ‘ ”Feminizing” the Song-and-Dance Man: Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical’, in Screening the Male, ed. Cohan and
published results of an online poll in the Radio Times 40th Anniversary Special, p. 4 (pull-out from Radio Times, 22–28 November 2003). 140.On branding in the new series, see Hills, Triumph of a Time Lord, pp. 66–70. 141.Matt Hills, ‘ ”New New” Doctor Who: Brand Regeneration?’, The Antenna Blog, 19 April 2010, http://blog.commarts.wisc. edu/2010/04/19/new-new-doctor-who-brand-regeneration/ (accessed 4 June 2010). 142.David Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (Oxford, 1995), p.
mid-1970s the authority figures whom the Doctor encounters were frequently managerial or administrative. A survey of Patrick Troughton’s three seasons as the Second Doctor would amply demonstrate the point. Thus, in the Second Doctor’s debut story, set in the human colony on the planet Vulcan, he spends most of his time parleying with the deputy governor, chief scientist and chief security officer. The trend continues in almost all stories from Troughton’s incumbency dealing with Earth in the
Reinette: she is constrained by her gender, and lonely in spite of all the extraordinary power and influence she wields as mistress to the King of France. And perhaps for the first time in Doctor Who’s television history the events of an episode serve to highlight the Doctor’s own lonely half-life. Although he too is a powerful being, who walks in eternity, all human existence is correspondingly fleeting for him and all intimacy with humans painfully transient. The contrast between the Doctor’s
observes that the problem which ethical philosophy originally addressed, namely how to live, cannot be reduced to questions of moral imperatives and laws.257 While Guillory rightly points out that the distinction has become thoroughly blurred in popular awareness, this seems reason to continue seeking to clarify the difference between ethics and morality, not to sidestep the problem. A Basis for Ethical Criticism As regards criteria for ethical judgment of the kind of ‘friendship’ that a text