Is doctor who Australian?

McKee, A

Is doctor who Australian?

McKee, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Media International Australia, 2009, (132), pp. 54 - 66
Issue Date:: 2009-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	McKee, A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0577-2061	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Media International Australia, 2009, (132), pp. 54 - 66	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1329-878X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/29196
dc.description.abstract	As part of an ARC Discovery project to write a history of Australian television from the point of view of audiences, I looked for Australian television fan communities. It transpired that the most productive communities exist around imported programming like the BBC's Doctor Who. This program is an Australian television institution, and I was therefore interested in finding out whether it should be included in an audience-centred history of Australian television. Research in archives of fan materials showed that the program has been made distinctively Australian through censorship and scheduling practices. There are uniquely Australian social practices built around it. Also, its very Britishness has become part of its being - in a sense- Australian. Through all of this, there is a clear awareness that this Australian institution originates somewhere else - that for these fans Australia is always secondary, relying on other countries to produce its myths for it, no matter how much it might reshape them.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0879596
dc.relation.ispartof	Media International Australia	en_US
dc.title	Is doctor who Australian?	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	132	en_US
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utslib.for	16 Studies in Human Society	en_US
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utslib.for	20 Language, Communication and Culture	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

As part of an ARC Discovery project to write a history of Australian television from the point of view of audiences, I looked for Australian television fan communities. It transpired that the most productive communities exist around imported programming like the BBC's Doctor Who. This program is an Australian television institution, and I was therefore interested in finding out whether it should be included in an audience-centred history of Australian television. Research in archives of fan materials showed that the program has been made distinctively Australian through censorship and scheduling practices. There are uniquely Australian social practices built around it. Also, its very Britishness has become part of its being - in a sense- Australian. Through all of this, there is a clear awareness that this Australian institution originates somewhere else - that for these fans Australia is always secondary, relying on other countries to produce its myths for it, no matter how much it might reshape them.

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