Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing [electronic resource] : Ordinary Audience /
Whitehouse-Hart, Jo.author.
Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Puzzling Viewing; 1 Favourites, TV and Home: Psychosocial Perspectives; 2 Psychosocial Methods and Audience Research; 3 Spending Too Much Time Watching TV?; 4 Favourite Things: Objects in the Life of a Castaway; 5 Mothers, Sons, Siblings and the Imaginative World of Working-Class Women's Viewing; 6 Risky Viewing and Risky Method?: Psychoanalysis, Method and Defended Viewing; Conclusion: Viewing Is Psychosocial; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Communication.
Sociology.
Motion pictures and television.
Cultural studies.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Media and Communication.
Communication Studies.
Media Research.
Screen Studies.
Cultural Studies.