Who Travels with the Doctor?

Essays on the Companions of Doctor Who

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Edited by Gillian I. Leitch and Sherry Ginn

Type: Stories
Subject: One Film > Doctor Who (TV Series)
Keywords: TV Series
Publishing date: 2016
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 180 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-9525-2

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Book Presentation:
Throughout the long-running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely been alone--his companions are essential. Male or (mostly) female, alien or (mostly) human, young or old (none as old as he), the dozens of companions who have travelled with him over the past 50 years have served as sympathetic proxies for the audience.

Through their adventures the companions are perfected, facing danger and thus discovering their strengths and weaknesses. Yet they all pay a price, losing their innocence and sometimes their lives.

This collection of new essays examines the role of the companion as an intermediate between viewers and the Doctor. The contributors discuss who travels with the Doctor and why, how they interact, how the companions influence the narrative and how their journeys change them.

About the authors:
Gillian I. Leitch is an independent scholar and historical researcher and is currently co-chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the PCA. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe.

Press Reviews:
"Who Travels with the Doctor? is an international eight author examination of a sampling of the various people who have traveled with a certain Time Lord"―SFCrowsnest; "scholars of television and other media and of narrative in any media explore secondary characters in the 50-year British television science fiction series"―ProtoView.

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