Love and Monsters The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present - Booy, Miles (I.B.Tauris, 2012)
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Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements/Notes on Sources; Introduction; I. Blue Diamond; II. Jonathan and Jeremy; III. American Express; IV. The New Vocabularies; V. The Next Generation; VI. Who Watches The Watchers; VII. The Franchise of Doom; Notes; Bibliography
Much has been written about how fans relate to their favourite programmes, but there have been few historical accounts of how specific fandoms change over time. Scholar and Doctor Who fan Miles Booy has written the first historical account of the public interpretation of Doctor Who. Love and Monsters begins in 1979 with the publication of Doctor Who Weekly, the magazine that was to start a chain of events which would see creative fans taking control of the merchandise and even of the programme's massively successful twenty-first-century reboot. From the twilight of Tom Baker's years, up to the