Media Audiences : Television, Meaning and Emotion /: Television, Meaning and Emotion. ([2009])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kristyn Gorton.
• Authors: Gorton, Kristyn, 1972-
• Contents: Introduction : why study television? -- Pt. 1. Theoretical background -- 'Desperately seeking the audience' : models of audience reception -- Personal meanings, fandom and sitting too close to the television -- Global meanings and trans-cultural understandings of Dallas -- Theorising emotion and affect : feminist engagements -- Theorising emotion in film and television -- Pt. 2. Case studies -- A sentimental journey : writing emotion in television -- 'There's no place like home" : emotional exposure, excess and empathy on TV -- Emotional rescue : The Sopranos (HBO 1999-2007, ER (NBC 1994-) and State of play (BBC1 2003) -- Feminising television : the mother role in Six feet under (HBO 2001-6) and Brothers & sisters (ABC 2006-) -- Researching emotion in television : a small-scale case study of emotion in the UK/Irish soap industry
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.2345; Mass media -- Audiences; Television viewers -- Psychology; Emotions -- Sociological aspects; Mass media -- Audiences -- Case studies; Television viewers -- Psychology -- Case studies; Emotions -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies; Emotions -- Sociological aspects; Mass media -- Audiences; Television viewers -- Psychology; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748630363; 0748630368
• Related ISBNs: 9780748624171; 9780748624188
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-172) and index.
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