The Black Archive #27: The Face of Evil @ The TARDIS Library (Doctor Who books, DVDs, videos & audios)


The Black Archive #27: The Face of Evil
 

No. 27 of 82 in the The Black Archive books series
<< Previous     Next >>

Cover image for The Black Archive #27: The Face of Evil
By:Thomas Rodebaugh
Rating:  Awaiting 3 votes  Vote here
Review:  None yet  Add a review
Released:  January 2019 (original release)
February 2019 (print-on-demand release)
Publisher:  Obverse Books
ISBN:978-1-909031-81-4
Format: paperback
Owned:
Buy:
Order from Amazon.co.uk
New: £8.99
Prices as of 28 Mar 17:11 GMT   More info
Order from Amazon.com
New: $169.99
Prices as of 28 Mar 17:11 GMT   More info
Order from Amazon.ca(Unable to fetch price)
Lulu.com
eBay

Note:  The original print run was missing some labelling on a pair of graphs on pages 123 and 124. Corrected versions of the graphs can be seen on the Obverse website. The mistake does not affect the e-book edition, and will be corrected for future printings.

Cover blurb:
‘The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common...’

Originally titled ‘The Day God Went Mad’, Chris Boucher’s The Face of Evil (1977), features a giant stone idol of the fourth Doctor and the introduction of his ‘savage’ companion Leela. Viewing the serial through a psychological lens, this volume of the Black Archive puts the insane computer Xoanon on the couch for analysis, while also examining the stereotypes of ‘madness’, and Freudian explanations for behaviour, that pervade Doctor Who.

Thomas L Rodebaugh is a psychologist and an associate professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University.

THE BLACK ARCHIVE:
Book-length looks at single Doctor Who stories from 1963 to the present day

“A grandly ambitious thing to attempt with something as exhaustively detailed as (Doctor Who). But they actually manage it. Treat your bookshelf."
—Doctor Who Magazine


Go back

Active session = no / Cookie = no