3/3 - Athenaeum at 1pm- Russell T. Davies’s Doctor Who: Myth for the Twenty-First Century by Gabe Dybing

Join us on March 3, 2010 at 1pm for a presentation by Gabe Dybing titled Russell T. Davies’s Doctor Who: Myth for the Twenty-first Century

Through his reinvention of the popular science fiction serial for the BBC, Doctor Who, writer and producer Russell T. Davies has proposed one of the new “myths” for the twenty-first century. This “grand narrative,” based on reason and focused on the now-fractured British Empire, assimilates and paradoxically validates belief systems that are more mythic or intuitive in nature. While working in many genres at once, Doctor Who repackages and re-presents content from spiritualist perspectives with “rational” explanations for those invested in dominant worldviews.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Krueger Library, bluff side.