Media audiences : television, meaning and emotion - Gorton, Kristyn, 1972- (Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
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.
Bibliography : p. [156]-172
Keywords: Mass media -- Audiences; Television viewers -- Psychology; Emotions -- Sociological aspects; Mass media -- Audiences -- Case studies; Television viewers -- Psychology -- Case studies; Emotions -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies