Media Audiences : : Television, Meaning and Emotion /

Media Audiences : : Television, Meaning and Emotion / / Kristyn Gorton.

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748624188);An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Gorton, Kristyn,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Media Topics : METO
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface: emotion, engagements and orientation
  • Introduction: why study television?
  • Part One: Theoretical back
  • 1. ‘Desperately Seeking the Audience’: models of audience recept
  • 2. Personal Meanings, Fandom and Sitting Too Close to the Television
  • 3. Global Meanings and Trans-cultural Understandings of Dallas
  • 4. Theorising Emotion and Affect: feminist engagements
  • 5. Theorising Emotion in Film and Television
  • Part Two: Case studies
  • 6. A Sentimental Journey: writing emotion in television
  • 7. ‘There’s No Place Like Home’: emotional exposure, excess and empathy on TV
  • 8. Emotional Rescue: The Sopranos (HBO 1999– 2007), ER (NBC 1994–) and State of Play (BBC1 2003)
  • 9. Feminising Television: the Mother Role in Six Feet Under (HBO 2001–6) and Brothers & Sisters (ABC 2006–)
  • 10. Researching Emotion in Television: a small-scale case study of emotion in the UK/Irish soap industry
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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