Media audiences
Subtitle: television, meaning and emotion
By: by Kristyn Gorton
Series: Media topics; Media topics
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780748624171; 9780748624188
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Television viewers; Audiences; Psychology; Mass media; Emotions; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why study television?; title: Pt. 1. Theoretical background; title: 'Desperately seeking the audience' : models of audience reception; title: Personal meanings, fandom and sitting too close to the television; title: Global meanings and trans-cultural understandings of Dallas; title: Theorising emotion and affect : feminist engagements; title: Theorising emotion in film and television; title: Pt. 2. Case studies; title: A sentimental journey : writing emotion in television; title: 'There's no place like home" : emotional exposure, excess and empathy on TV; title: Emotional rescue : The Sopranos (HBO 1999-2007, ER (NBC 1994-) and State of play (BBC1 2003); title: Feminising television : the mother role in Six feet under (HBO 2001-6) and Brothers & sisters (ABC 2006-); title: Researching emotion in television : a small-scale case study of emotion in the UK/Irish sop industry.