Once Upon a Time Lord av Ivan (University of Hertfordshire UK) Phillips

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¿Every story ever told really happened...¿ (The Doctor, ¿Hell Bent¿, 2015)Stories are, fundamentally what <i>Doctor Who</i> is all about. In <i>Once Upon a Time Lord, </i>Ivan Phillips explores a wide range of perspectives on these stories and presents a lively and richly-varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with ¿classic¿ and ¿new¿ <i>Who</i>, Phillips looks at how aspects of the Time Lord¿s story have been developed on television and beyond, tracing lines of connection and divergence across various media. He discusses <i>Doctor Who </i>as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in often complex ways, at the same time reworking elements from many other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical. <i>Once Upon A Time Lord </i>offers an original take on this singular hero¿s journey, reading the unsettled enigma of the Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has encou