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Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS in SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY (A Series Edited by Donald E Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY (a series edited by Donald E. Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III) 1 Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias (Dunja M. Mohr, 2005) 2 Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language (ed. Janet Brennan Croft, 2007) 3 Culture, Identities and Technology in the Star Wars Films: Essays on the Two Trilogies (ed. Carl Silvio, Tony M. Vinci, 2007) 4 The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture (ed. Lincoln Geraghty, 2008) 5 Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction (Gary Westfahl, 2007) 6 One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. 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Pharr, 2016) 54 The Science Fiction Mythmakers: Religion, Science and Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert (Jennifer Simkins, 2016) 55 Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television: An Analysis of Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood (Tom Powers, 2016) This page intentionally left blank Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television An Analysis of Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood Tom Powers Foreword by Matt Hills CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, 55 Series Editors Donald E. Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina ISBN (print) 978-1-4766-6552-8 ISBN (ebook) 978-1-4766-2693-2 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING DATA ARE AVAILABLE BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING DATA ARE AVAILABLE © 2016 Tom Powers. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 www.mcfarlandpub.com For my wife Amanda Acknowledgments I would like to thank Thomas J. Slater, whose synergistic advising on my dissertation led to the creation of this book, as well as my dissertation committee members, John Branscum and Christopher Orchard, who gave me valuable advice and encouragement. Moreover, I appreciate Alexis Lothian, for introducing me to queer theory; Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, for supporting my early musings on Red Dwarf; Marc Schuster, for his insightful feedback on my manuscript; and Don Z. Block, for his kind words. I am also grateful to Donald E. Palumbo, who helped me to refine this work for publication, and Matt Hills, for providing such a thoughtful foreword. viii Table of Contents Acknowledgments viii Foreword: The Challenges of Regeneration (by Matt Hills) 1 Introduction: Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood: Gendered Heroic Quests 11 One: The Phenomenological Meanings of BBC Cult SF Headquarters and Objects 21 Two: The Rise, Fall and Nostalgic Embers of 1980s Doctor Who 42 Three: The CNC Implications of Blake’s 7’s Stylized Retro- Future 79 Four: What a Smegging Quest! The Journey of Red Dwarf and Its Fandom 108 Five: Everything’s Constantly Changing: Sex and Death on Torchwood 147 Six: NüWho’s Quest to Stay Relevant with Its Fans 186 Conclusion: Encoders and Decoders Shaping the Destinies of Four Cult SF TV Sagas 221 Appendix: Televised Works 233 Chapter Notes 245 Works Cited 259 Index 265 ix This page intentionally left blank Foreword: The Challenges of Regeneration by Matt Hills In one sense, this book reverses the (theoretical) polarity of Henry Jenkins’s seminal study of cult/telefantasy TV and its fans, Textual Poach- ers. Where Jenkins largely dispensed with Stuart Hall’s influential encod- ing/decoding model—to focus instead on Michel de Certeau’s model of “poaching”—Tom Powers intriguingly inverts that decision. In the pages that follow, then, we get a return to Hall’s approach, albeit one that is revised in order to better capture the temporality of long- running media franchises—or, at least, of TV shows that their fans refuse to let fade away via “post-object fandom” (Williams, Post-Object). As Powers thoughtfully muses in his conclusion: “One constant has been present [across these case studies]—time… . Time is … ever present in an always- evolving decoding sense as the four fan cultures … continue to build upon their DIY cultural productions that celebrate, criticize and recreate their televised objects of affection.” Putting media fans’ and brands’ temporalities back into the encoding/ decoding model in this way means admitting that a synchronic, singular focus on moments of determinate decoding is far too limited a way of thinking.
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