Matt Hills: 3 books
Triumph of a Time Lord
Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Before Saturday March 26th 2005, 'Doctor Who' had been off the air as a regular, new TV series for more than fifteen years. And yet a production team led by Russell T. Davies re-imagined the programme so successfully, so triumphantly, that it's become an instant Christmas tradition, a BAFTA winner,...
by Matt Hills
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
More than just a box office flop that resurrected itself in the midnight movie circuit, Blade Runner (1982) achieved extraordinary cult status through video, laserdisc, and a five-disc DVD collector's set. Blade Runner has become a network of variant texts and fan speculations-a franchise created...
by Matt Hills
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
The BBC TV series Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013; this book analyses how promotion, commemorative merchandise and 3D cinema screenings worked paratextually to construct a 'popular media event' while sometimes uneasily integrating public service values and consumerist logics.