
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research
Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies
Kathryn Beaton(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 2025
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-1-032-72032-6 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research: Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies explores the diversity of fans and how they form and express their identity within fandom. Main themes in this book include otherness, fans with disabilities, fans within the LGBTQIA+ community, and how fandom can enrich the life of a fan.
This book asks readers how a fan develops and performs their identity and proposes a screenwriting practice methodology. Otherness in this scenario includes people who have disabilities are within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and are neurodiverse. Screenwriting methodology also allows concepts such as disability, sexuality, and otherness to be humanized through characterization and world building as seen in screenwriting practice.
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research: Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies examines world building, characterization, and story arcs that explore the development of fan identity and how otherness through fandom is expressed. It draws on the lived experience of the author as a disabled LGBTQIA+ aca-fan to add a layer of authenticity to the research. By offering a unique perspective on fandom and identity and how screenwriting methodology is a viable approach to researching these concepts, it looks to spread understanding of a neglected point of view and enhance future works.
Readers who would be interested in this book are scholars and students of fandom theory, screenwriting practice, and those interested in the development and expression of identity as a fan.
This book asks readers how a fan develops and performs their identity and proposes a screenwriting practice methodology. Otherness in this scenario includes people who have disabilities are within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and are neurodiverse. Screenwriting methodology also allows concepts such as disability, sexuality, and otherness to be humanized through characterization and world building as seen in screenwriting practice.
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research: Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies examines world building, characterization, and story arcs that explore the development of fan identity and how otherness through fandom is expressed. It draws on the lived experience of the author as a disabled LGBTQIA+ aca-fan to add a layer of authenticity to the research. By offering a unique perspective on fandom and identity and how screenwriting methodology is a viable approach to researching these concepts, it looks to spread understanding of a neglected point of view and enhance future works.
Readers who would be interested in this book are scholars and students of fandom theory, screenwriting practice, and those interested in the development and expression of identity as a fan.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
523 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-72032-6 (9781032720326)
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Kathryn Beaton
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research
Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies
E-Book
09/2025
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download

Kathryn Beaton
Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research
Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies
E-Book
09/2025
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Person
Kathryn Beaton has a doctorate in Philosophy, Media, and Communications from RMIT University and a Masters in Screenwriting from the Victorian College of the Arts.
Content
Introduction 1. Screenwriting Practice Methodology and Fan Studies 2. Fanwriting Practices: Meta, Fanfic, and Representation 3. Cosplay: Identity Formation and Performance 4. Conventions: Locating Fandom 5. Collecting: Fan Activity and Identity Formation 5. Otherness and Intersectionality. Conclusion