Media Audiences
Television, Meaning and Emotion
by Kristyn Gorton
An engaging and original study of current
research on television audiences and the concept
of emotion, this book offers a new insight into
key issues within television studies. Topics
discussed include: television branding;
emotional qualities in television texts;
audience reception models; new research on fan
cultures; 'quality' television; television
aesthetics; reality television; individualism
and its links to television consumption.
The book is divided into two sections: the first
covers theoretical work on the audience, fan
cultures, global television, theorising emotion
and affect in feminist theory and film and
television studies. The second half offers a
series of case studies on television programmes
such as Wife Swap, The Sopranos and Six Feet
Under in order to explore how emotion is
fashioned, constructed and valued in televisual
texts. The final chapter features original
interview material with industry professionals
in the UK and Irish Soap industry along with
advice to students on how to conduct their own
small-scale ethnographic projects.
September 2009 | Media Topics series | Pb 978 0
7486 2418 8 | £16.99 |
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