The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who - Softcover

Leslie McMurtry; Graham Sleight; Una McCormack; Antony Keen; Catherine Coker; James Rose; Richard Burley; Clare Parody; Sydney Duncan; Andy Duncan; Paul Hawkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0903007088 ISBN 13: 9780903007085

Publisher: The Science Fiction Foundation, 2011

Synopsis

The return of Doctor Who to regular TV production after many years of absence has proven to be one of the BBC's greatest successes of the last decade. To a great extent this is down to the distinctive re-invention of the programme by its chief writer and executive producer, Russell T. Davies, and the group of writers - many, like him, long-term Who fans - he assembled. The Unsilent Library examines the storytelling style and techniques of the first five years of the New Doctor Who. Ten in-depth critical essays explore how its writers have updated a series with a history stretching back five decades to stand in the forefront of contemporary science fiction drama.

With contributions by Richard Burley, Catherine Coker, Andrew Duncan and Sydney Duncan, Paul Hawkins, Antony Keen, Una McCormack, Leslie McMurtry, Clare Parody, James Rose and Graham Sleight, and a foreword by Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Science Fiction Foundation
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0903007088
• ISBN 13: 9780903007085
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Simon Bradshaw