“Time Can Be Rewritten”: The Doctor, the Book, and the Database
2018; Wiley; Volume: 51; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/jpcu.12723
ISSN1540-5931
Autores Tópico(s)Sound Studies and Aurality
ResumoConan-Doyle, and others has been well-charted by historians of the program. 1 Directing critical attention away from the question of intertextual connections and toward the role that books-as-objects play in the text of the series itself reveals additional fruitful readings.Perhaps surprisingly for a program that devotes a significant amount of its time to the construction of alien and/or future cultures, Doctor Who has a remarkable fascination with the printed book.Its central role in Doctor Who stories such as "Extremis," "Silence in the Library," and "Forest of the Dead," as well as the smaller but no less meaningful parts books play in "An Unearthly Child," "The Mind Robber," "The Deadly Assassin," and "The Angels Take Manhattan," is particularly marked in the era of the e-book and the tablet.As these stories show, in the Doctor Who universe, books are more than repositories of knowledge or sources of entertainment.Instead, they occupy an area of unsettling ambiguity.Books almost always signal that something odd or threatening is happening or is about to happen.Often, books themselves are the cause of such events, although they are rarely presented as unequivocally monstrous or evil.Rather, and in accordance with the key aesthetic of the program, books in Doctor Who are uncanny: they represent what is comfortable and ordinary while at the same time alluding to a disturbing otherness. 2In Doctor Who the disturbing other of the book is the database, a digital archive designed to be added to, rewritten, searched or otherwise interacted with.The history of books in Doctor Who is, then, the history of a
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