The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the new Doctor Who was a reference books which focused on Russell T Davies' first tenure as Doctor Who's executive producer (2005-2010).
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The return of Doctor Who to regular TV production after many years of absence has proven to be one of the BBC's greatest successes of the last decade. To a great extent this is down to the distinctive re-invention of the programme by its chief writer and executive producer, Russell T. Davies, and the group of writers — many, like him, long-term Who fans — he assembled. The Unsilent Library examines the storytelling style and techniques of the first five years of the New Doctor Who. Ten in-depth critical essays explore how its writers have updated a series with a history stretching back five decades to stand in the forefront of contemporary science fiction drama.
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- Foreword - Robert Shearman
- Introduction - Simon Bradshaw, Graham Sleight, and Tony Keen
- The Big Picture Show: Russell T. Davies's writing for Doctor Who - Graham Sleight
- The reasons and functions behind the use of deus ex machina in Season One of the New Who - Paul Hawkins
- He's Not the Messiah: undermining political and religious authority in New Doctor Who - Una McCormack
- Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? - Antony Keen
- How Donna Noble Saved the Multiverse (and Had To Pay for It) - Sydney Duncan and Andy Duncan
- Does the Doctor Dance? Heterosexuality, Omnisexuality, and Spontaneous Generation in the Whoverse - Catherine Coker
- Conflict, Hybridity and Forgiveness - James Rose
- The Importance of Language Converted to Knowledge in the Arsenal of the Tenth Doctor - Leslie McMurtry
- Philosophies of Time Travel in the New Doctor Who - Richard Burley
- Approaching Character in the New Doctor Who - Clare Parody
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