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Gorton, Kristyn

Media audiences: television, meaning and emotion/ Kristyn Gorton - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. - ix, 176 p. ; 23 cm. - (Media topics) .

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.

ISBN: 9780748624171

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Television viewers--Psychology
Emotions--Sociological aspects
Mass media--Audiences
Television viewers
Television

Dewey Class. No.: 302.23 / GOR/M