First things first – we’ve had a visit to this often not particularly humble blog from the editor and author of chapter one of this very book. Check the comments section to my overview of that chapter for his defense / counter-summary of that chapter. Some interesting things have come up, and I’ve brought up [...]
Archive for the ‘Scholarship’ Category
Chapter 7 – Mythic Identity in Doctor Who
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A defense of the Doctor Who telefilm
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having had a few days to ruminate on Chapter 1 of the book of essays on Doctor Who, and having ‘watched’ the telefilm again (by running it as background noise one day), I’m beginning to develop a counter argument that I’d like to float.
All y’all Doctor Who fans might have some input on this, unlike [...]
Chapter 6 – On how much smarter the author is than anyone else
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to try, really try, to not rant about this article; however, be aware that I am at this moment providing fair warning that I might not be able to contain myself when discussing this reprehensible and arrogant piece of shit.
The chapter, such as it is, can basically be separated into three sections, two [...]
Chapter 5 – Narrative Form and Point-of-View
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If ever one needed an example of a scholarly train-wreck, this is it. I have never in my life encountered an ‘argument’ where almost all of the interesting analyses are moved to the footnotes and the body of the text consists of nothing but very loosely related asides.
Honestly, his ‘argument’ goes from ‘Dr. Who was [...]
Chapters 3 and 4 – History, Pseudo-History, and Genre
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to combine these two chapters into a single post, as the latter is a partial elaboration and a partial critique of the former.
Chapter three, the first truly excellent chapter in the book, is a practically indisputable (in my opinion) theoretical analysis of the ways in which ‘history’ has been used as a genre [...]
A question on viewer-awareness and enjoyment
Posted in Cinema and Film, Scholarship, television on May 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While watching a little bit of television to start my day today, I caught some of a show called “Man vs. Wild” (starring the ridiculously named adventurer ‘Bear Grylls’).
While lowering himself into a ‘deadly’ hole in glacial ice, jabbering the entire way about how lethal the thing was and how it could ‘close up any [...]
Chapter 2 – Child as Addressee in show’s first configuration (Dr., Susan, Ian, Babs)
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In this chapter/essay, what should have been an interesting approach, reading the ways in which various viewers were allowed ‘into’ the program via being able to identify with certain characters, becomes an unbelievably narrow minded analysis of child viewers only.
The argument, such as it is, basically claims that children could identify as easily with the [...]
Chapter 1 – Audiences, Science Fiction and Todorov’s ‘Fantastic’
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
(By way of introduction, let me say that, as I could get no one particularly interested in reading the new scholarly book on Dr. Who – “Time and Relative Dissertations in Space” – along with me and starting a conversation blog to discuss it, I have decided to simply write personal reviews of each chapter [...]
Sexuality, Romance, and Post-feminism
Posted in Cinema and Film, Scholarship on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During my long day at work, I was able to take an hour and a half off in order to see a presentation on the above topic by a job candidate in Emory’s film department.
It strikes me that there was an undeclared assumption somewhere along the line. I’m not entirely sure I’ve pinpointed it, but [...]
CULTURAL MATHEMATICS
Posted in Cinema and Film, Life in general, Scholarship on December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(Sorry for the all caps title, but such looks better on this current blog layout.)
A trip to Ghent, Belgium, told in pieces.
The flights:
The first flight was fine. Only about half full, which makes for a relatively comfortable trip. A remarkably low number of screaming babies. And flying from west to east feels quicker, as one [...]
