[ecrea] Media Audiences by Kristyn Gorton

> Media Audiences
> Television, Meaning and Emotion
> by Kristyn Gorton
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> September 2009 | Media Topics series | Pb 978 0 
> 7486 2418 8 | £16.99 | 
> <http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748624188>www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748624188 
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