When Doctor Who Enters its Own Timeline
The Database Aesthetics and Hyperdiegesis of Multi-Doctor Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5681608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Hills (0000-0002-8778-6530, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-113 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7227/cst.9.1.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2327160887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Recent Doctor Who episodes such as 'The Name of the Doctor' (7:13) and 'The Day of the Doctor' anniversary special1 suggest that today's multi-Doctor TV stories seek to avoid audience awareness of actors' visible ageing, focusing on recent incarnations of the Doctor alongside sampled footage of previous stars. This positions 2013's multi-Doctor TV stories within a mode of 'database aesthetics' rather than as pastiching the programme's past. Recombining images from previous Doctor Who could unify the hyperdiegetic 'Whoniverse', but I identify a tension between this textuality and licensing strategies targeting fandom. And whilst November 23rd's episode was designed to be accessible to a mass audience, 'The Night of the Doctor' minisode2 and 'The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot'3 responded to fans' wishes: contemporary multi-Doctor stories seemingly operate as part of the show's 'fanbrand', incorporating knowledge of fan critique
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Media studies · Reboot · Sociology · Textuality · Timeline · Visual arts · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |