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dc.contributor.authorTranter, Kieran
dc.contributor.editorGinn S. and Leitch G.I.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T22:42:34Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T22:42:34Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.isbn9781442255777
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/141417
dc.description.abstractFor a television show about a time-traveling alien and his mostly human, mostly female companions, Doctor Who, until very recently, has not engaged in any great depth with the complexities of time travel. For the bulk of the Doctor Who televised canon, time travel was simply a device to allow the Doctor to have an adventure within a particular historical period. The potential of time travel to meddle with cause and effect and ultimately narrative sensibility has been generally avoided by Doctor Who's writers and producers through intratext posited or natural laws of time that prevent or mitigate the contradictions of time travel. This chapter focuses on two Doctor Who broadcast stories that were directly concerned with time travel: "Day of the Daleks" and "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS." In each narrative, the "this happens and then that" is maintained through "time loops" that are bracketing at the beginning/end of the stories. Within the loop, continuity is maintained while the overall narrative remains sensible outside of the loop, with the loop revealed as a "paradox," a "future-that-was-not." These time-loop stories are important for what is affirmed about living as a "being-in-time." They remind us that being-in-time involves both subjective and objective time. As creatures thrown into a technological society where objective time appears to be in ascendance, time loops, paradoxically, remind us that to be human, there is more to "time" than objective time. That the subjective experience of the passage of time-the time of fallible memory and unknowable future-is as important for human beings as the hard ordering of cause and effect.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageenglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRowman and Littlefield
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttps://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442255777
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleTime-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past
dc.relation.ispartofchapter21
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom223
dc.relation.ispartofpageto232
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLegal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchFilm and Television
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode180122
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode190204
dc.titleNarrative and Paradoxes in Doctor Who "Time Loop" Stories
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
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gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. This material has been published in Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past edited by S. Ginn and G. I. Leitch, pp. 223-232, 2015, reproduced by permission of Rowman & Littlefield, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442255777 All rights reserved. Please contact the publisher for permission to copy, distribute or reprint.
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