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_bGOR/M
100 _aGorton, Kristyn
245 0 _aMedia audiences: television, meaning and emotion/
_cKristyn Gorton
260 _aEdinburgh:
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2009.
300 _aix, 176 p. ;
_c23 cm.
440 _a(Media topics)
505 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 _aTelevision viewers--Psychology
650 _aEmotions--Sociological aspects
650 _aMass media--Audiences
650 _aTelevision viewers
650 _aTelevision
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