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'All This Fizzing Inside': Watching the return of Doctor Who
Phillips, Ivan (2018-10-12)This short blog article is a response to the debut of episode of Jodie Whittaker in the role of the Doctor in BBC television's long-running science fiction drama Doctor Who. As the first female actor to be given the role ... -
A Clash of Harmony : Forgery as Politics in the Work of Thomas Chatterton
Phillips, Ivan (2012)If Thomas Chatterton is remembered at all now, it is for his supposed suicide rather than for his work. He has become the all-but-forgotten ‘poster boy’ for tragic Romanticism, a talented but misunderstood teenager who ... -
Dark Machines and Electric Flames : technopoetics from the romantic age to the digital age
Phillips, Ivan (2008) -
Doctor Who and the Terror of the Vorticists : popular fantasy and the cultural inheritance of BLAST
Phillips, Ivan (2014-07)Given the perceived anti-popular temperament of Wyndham Lewis’s work – his satire of ‘the herd’ and antipathy to ‘group rhythms’ – it might seem perverse to trace links between the avant-garde insurgency of the Vorticist ... -
Enemy Lines : form, politics and identity in Wyndham Lewis's One-Way Song
Phillips, Ivan (2005) -
Erik's Effects : The Phantom, the 'gesamtkunstwerk', and the monstrosity of spectacle
Phillips, Ivan (2013)Erik, who is a real monster … is also, in certain respects, a regular child, vain and self-conceited and there is nothing he loves so much as, after astonishing people, to prove the really miraculous ingenuity of his mind’ ... -
Frock coats, yo-yos and a chair with a panda on it : nostalgia for the future in the life of a 'Doctor Who' fan
Phillips, Ivan (Intellect, 2013-08)The scene revealed by a London policeman’s torch in the low-key opening moments of a new television series on the evening of Saturday 23rd November 1963 now seems emblematic. Doctor Who began in a junkyard and the secret ... -
The Hero with Eleven Faces (So Far) : Doctor Who and the triumph of unsettlement
Phillips, Ivan (2013)Doctor Who is an unstable phenomenon. This is its great strength, the secret of its enduring success. Resistant to generic categories, merging futurism and nostalgia, its eponymous hero (sometimes anti-hero) is a character ... -
Hybrid Energies and Mutant Forms : the confessions of a pedagogical misfit
Phillips, Ivan (2014-06)Offering a reflective narrative on the transformative effects of finding yourself ‘teaching in the wrong subject area’, this paper shows how sustained exploration of the shadowy realms between subject disciplines can bring ... -
'I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself': the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who
Phillips, Ivan (Manchester University Press, 2020-01-31)This chapter was developed from a paper ('I was a teenage Whovian but I'm all right now-eee-ooooooooo-ooo-eeh-yooooooooo: the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who') delivered at the Open ... -
In His Bad Books : Wyndham Lewis and Fascism
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In Praise Of The Moff: On The Legacy Of Doctor Who's Departing Showrunner
Phillips, Ivan (2017-07-09)Steven Moffat, creator of BBC's Sherlock and showrunner of Doctor Who from 2010 to 2017, is a controversial figure whose work - although extremely popular - tends to divide both fans and academics, not to mention aca-fans ... -
Is the end of time in sight for Doctor Who?
Phillips, Ivan (2016-12-22)In the universe of Doctor Who, silence rarely signifies a lack of activity. When the 2016 Christmas Special, ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’, airs among mince pies and mistletoe on 25th December, it will have been over a ... -
Penmen and brushmen : The remediation of word and image in the work of Wyndham Lewis and David Jones
Phillips, Ivan (2008)Historians of graphic design have tended to trace the consolidation of their subject as a distinct discipline to the Modernist moment in Europe. The awkward assimilation of Modernist manners in Britain meant that the ... -
The Phantom of the Media : Erik, the Gesamtkunstwerk and the spectacle of unsettlement
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Political Incorrectness Gone Sane? : Lewis, Race and Gender
Phillips, Ivan (Edinburgh University Press, 2015-07-06) -
Reversing the Polarity of the Gender Flow: on reactions to Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor
Phillips, Ivan (2017-07-28)This short blog post reflects on immediate reactions to the announcement of Jodie Whittaker's casting as the Doctor in BBC television's long-running science fiction drama Doctor Who, the first female actor to be given the ... -
'Revolution is like Saturn' : children as metaphors of unsettlement
Phillips, Ivan (2013)The eponymous hero’s description of revolution in Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death (1835) – ‘he devours his own children’ – is richly suggestive. Evoking the paranoiac consumption of his offspring by Cronos (Saturn), it ... -
The Vampire in the Machine : exploring the undead interface
Phillips, Ivan (Manchester University Press, 2013-11) -
The Vampire in the Machine : exploring the undead interface
Phillips, Ivan (2010)A developed version of this paper was published in Open Graaves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Popular Culture, eds. Sam George and Bill Hughes (Manchester University Press, 2013).