An Introduction from Doctor Who: Feminism in the Whoniverse with Dr. Rosanne Welch Dr. Rosanne Welch (rosannewelch) speaks on “Feminism in the Whoniverse” of Doctor Who, the BBC television program now in its 50th year. She reviews each of the Doctor’s female companions and speaks on how they are represented in the program and how they represented the women of their respective periods. Transcript: Well, its lovely to see all of you folks here to talk about The Doctor and this particular aspect. Weve done this a couple times. Weve talked about culture. Weve talked about race on Doctor Who. Today, were talking about the F Word, but not the four letter one, but some people treat it that way. So we need to think about that. We need to think about what messages we get from the television that we watch and the films that we watch. In this case, its Doctor Who. Something I happen to adore and have adored for a long time. If you notice on the back table there, Ive got books that date back to the 1970s. Because you used to be able to watch this program on PBS like 4 years after it aired in England, because that was before everyone got very cool with how things are done, right? Now, you can watch it the day that its aired and, if course, when they did the 50th Anniversary Special, you could watch it the moment -- the very time -- it was aired. So it has really been something thats spread across this cultural divide we used to have with England and so today I want to focus on the concept of the women whove travelled with The Doctor and what they tell us about feminism across the years that this program has been on the air. Feminism in the Whoniverse was presented at the Cal Poly Pomona University Library where Dr. Welch teaches in the IGE (Interdisciplinary General Education) program. This is a clip from a longer presentation, which can be seen in its entirety here welchwrite/rwelch/2014/10/09/video-doctor-who-feminism-in-the-whoniverse-with-dr-rosanne-welch/#sthash.GYqShb0U.dpuf This is the 4th talk on various aspects of Doctor Who that Dr. Welch has presented. You can find Dr. Welchs other Doctor Who talks using the links below. Doctor Who and Culture https://youtube/watch?v=i9RZbiV0SKE Doctor Who Regenerated https://youtube/watch?v=yhdWRZEKAIo How the Growing Popularity of the English Who-niverse Effected American TV with Dr. Rosanne Welch https://youtube/watch?v=VinGIYXef1c Dr. Rosanne Welch Web Site and Blog rosannewelch Follow Dr. Welch on Twitter twitter/rosannewelch
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:55:57 +0000
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