Description
The BBC TV series Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013; this book analyses how promotion, commemorative merchandise and 3D cinema screenings worked paratextually to construct a 'popular media event' while sometimes uneasily integrating public service values and consumerist logics.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Media Anniversaries – Brand, Paratext, Event… and the Hype of the Doctor
1. Marketing the 50th Anniversary – Brand Management and the Cultural Value of the Doctor
2. Merchandising the 50th Anniversary – Public Service Consumption in the Name of the Doctor
3. Mediatizing the 50th Anniversary – Cinematic Liveness and the 'Developing Art' of the Doctor
