The Works of Steven Moffat
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The second book in the Screen Storytellers series, this is the first critical appraisal of television writer Steven Moffat. It spans the early sitcoms that draw on his own autobiography to the hugely successful reinventions of Doctor Who and Sherlock to his attempts to revise and revitalize Victorian horror classics and beyond.
In a decades-long career as one of the world's most successful television writers, Steven Moffat has reimagined almost every major character in British pop culture, from Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who to Dracula and Dr. Jekyll. The scholars contributing to this volume offer diverse and wide-ranging viewpoints on Moffat's career and work, as an immensely influential television creator whose impact is still underestimated. They present a comprehensive and insightful exploration of Moffat's contributions to screenwriting and television to provide a rich, multifaceted understanding of his unique storytelling techniques and the evolution of his style. The range of approaches blend academic analysis with practical insights to offer a unique look at Moffat's influence on modern television storytelling.
Table of Contents
Introduction
William Rabkin (University of California Riverside-Palm Desert, USA)
PART I: HOW HE WORKS
1. A Boy That Dreamed of a Program That Could Go On Forever
James Felder (New York University, USA)
2. The British Friends: Moffat's Coupling
Karen Jeynes (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
3. The First Word: The Roots of Moffat's Doctor Who in His Earliest Works
Jamie Beckwith (Independent Scholar, UK) and Leslie Grace McMurtry (University of Salford, UK)
4. Writing About Himself: Moffat's Reinvention from Autobiography to Genre
Robert J. Binney (Independent Scholar, USA)
PART II: EARLY WORKS
5. Voices, Silences, and Today's Youth: Narrative Strategy in Press Gang
Tom Muir (Oslomet University, Norway)
6. Man Up: Coupling and the Rom-Com
Mary Irwin (Queen Margaret University, UK)
7. “That thing was not my master”: Steven Moffat's Post-Oedipal Sequel Jekyll
Linda Belau (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, USA)
8. Sub/Text: A Real Human Being and a Real Anti-Hero: An Analysis of Steven Moffat's Character Construction
Doga Çöl (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)
PART III: LATER WORKS
9. To Build a Genius: Narrative Templates and Visual Construction of Steven Moffat's Protagonists
Simona Adinolfi (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) and Silvia Genovese (Independent Scholar, UK)
10. Temporal Distortions: The Art of Non-Linearity in Moffat's Doctor Who and Sherlock
Sony Jalarajan Raj (MacEwen University, Canada) and Adith K. Suresh (MacEwen University, Canada)
11. Watching as New Reading: Narratology, Intertextuality, and Audience Engagement in the Selected Works of Steven Moffat
Roksana Zgierska (University of Gdansk, Poland)
12. Moffat's Sherlock: Challenging the Cartesian Thinking Man
Shreya Das (The Sanskrit College and University, India)
13. The Complex Count and the Curing of Toxic Masculinity in Moffat's Dracula
Ahmad Hayat (International College of Science and Technology, Kuwait)
14. Sub/Text: Adapting the Queer Sadomasochism of Dracula
Ian M. Clark (Queen's University Kingston, Canada)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 18 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9798765124666 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Series | Screen Storytellers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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