TY - BOOK AU - Gorton, Kristyn TI - Media audiences: television, meaning and emotion SN - 9780748624171 U1 - 302.23 PY - 2009/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Television viewers--Psychology KW - Emotions--Sociological aspects KW - Mass media--Audiences KW - Television viewers KW - Television N1 - 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 ER -