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Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion
Kristyn Gorton
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Description for Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion
Paperback. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of media audiences as well as new research on the emotional engagement viewers have with television texts. Series: Media Topics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFDT. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities in television texts; audience reception models; 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 ... Read more
An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities in television texts; audience reception models; 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Media Topics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748624188
SKU
V9780748624188
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About Kristyn Gorton
Dr Kristyn Gorton is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York. She is the author of Critical Scenes of Desire in Twentieth-Century Fiction (2006) and Theorising Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film (2007). She has published articles in the Journal of British Cinema and Television, Dalhousie French Studies, Studies in European ... Read more
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