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New critical perspectives on the Doctor Who of Peter Capaldi, who played the twelfth regeneration of the Time Lord, and show writer and executive producer Steven Moffat.

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Peter Capaldi´s Doctor Who - unpredictable, embattled, mercurial - has raised many fresh issues for followers of the Time Lord. In this book, the first to address the Capaldi era in depth, international experts on the show explore Capaldi´s portrayal of the Doctor, and Steven Moffat´s role as show writer and executive producer.

They evaluate the effect of Capaldi´s older age on the series´ pace and themes; his Scottishness and representations of Scotland in Doctor Who´s history, and the roles of the Doctor´s female companions, particularly Clara Oswald as played by Jenna Coleman. The politics of war are addressed, as is the development of the alien-fighting military organisation UNIT in the show, as well as controversial portrayals of the afterlife and of immortality. There´s discussion of promotional discourses, the imagining of the Twelfth Doctor in fan fiction and fan art, fan responses to the re-gendering of the Master as female, and of Christmas television and the uncanny. For fans, scholars and students alike, this book is a fitting tribute to and assessment of Peter Capaldi´s Doctor Who.

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List of Figures
Contributors
Note on Terminology
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Andrew O´Day
Part One: The Doctor and His Companions
1. A Young-Old Face: Out with the New and in with the Old in Doctor Who, Richard Hewett
2. ´I´m Scottish . I can really complain about things now´: Discourses of Scotland and Scottishness in Doctor Who, Douglas McNaughton
3. Clara´s Choice: The Political Lunarscape of ´Kill the Moon´, Sonia Michaels
Part Two: Further Politics and Themes
4. A Good Man Goes to War? The Twelfth Doctor and the Politics of Conflict, Robin Bunce
5. ´Chap with wings there, five rounds rapid´: UNIT and the Politics of Doctor Who, Eric Leuschner
6. Heaven Sent? The Afterlife, Immortality and Controversy in the Steven Moff at/Peter Capaldi Era, Andrew Crome
7. Comfort and Joy? The Steven Moffat/Peter Capaldi Christmas Specials, David Budgen
Part Three: Promotional Discourses
8. ´Please welcome the Twelfth Doctor´: The Paratextual Branding of Peter Capaldi´s Tenure, Matt Hills9. The Transcultural Fan: Branding Series 8 of Doctor Who in the US, Paul Booth
Part Four: Fandom
10. ´Doctor Who belongs to all of us´: Fan Texts and Fans´ Imaginings of the Future Twelfth Doctor, Brigid Cherry
11. Hit or Miss? Fan Responses to the Regenderation of the Master, Dene October
Appendix: Audience data
List of Episodes: The Steven Moffat/Peter Capaldi era
Index

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