Detailed Doctor Who analysis

Genre and audience pleasures

Rick Altman argues that genre offers audiences a set of pleasures:

Emotional Pleasures
How does the text make you feel? - happy, sad, nostalgic etc.

Visceral Pleasures
Gut response such as excitement, fear, laughter

Intellectual Pleasures
Does it make the audience think?


Mis-en-scene

Dr. Who

Costumes are old fashioned
Bowtie, blue shirt (familiarity, dependable), formal
Formal dress gives the protagonist a sense of authority

Assistant

Yellow summer dress

Polka dots

Upbeat

Kate Stewart

Formal clothing

White shirt, black scarf

Setting and location

Secret, underground

Colour palette is neutral and earthy but turns blue and icy in the labortary