Media audiences television, meaning and emotion

A 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 in television texts; audience reception models; fan cultures; 'quality&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gorton, Kristyn, 1972- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press c2009.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31314235*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 sop industry.