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Media audiences: television, meaning and emotion/ Kristyn Gorton

By: Gorton, KristynMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: (Media topics)Publication details: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009Description: ix, 176 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780748624171Subject(s): Television viewers--Psychology | Emotions--Sociological aspects | Mass media--Audiences | Television viewers | TelevisionDDC classification: 302.23

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 sop industry.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	302.23 GOR/M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10755

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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.

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