Media Audiences: Television, Meaning, and Emotion

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Preface: emotion, engagements and orientation......Page 9
Introduction: why study television?......Page 12
Part One Theoretical background......Page 20
1 ‘Desperately Seeking the Audience’: models of audience reception......Page 22
2 Personal Meanings, Fandom and Sitting Too Close to the Television......Page 41
3 Global Meanings and Trans-cultural Understandings of Dallas......Page 56
4 Theorising Emotion and Affect: feminist engagements......Page 66
5 Theorising Emotion in Film and Television......Page 83
Part Two Case studies......Page 98
6 A Sentimental Journey: writing emotion in television......Page 100
7 ‘There’s No Place Like Home’: emotional exposure, excess and empathy on TV......Page 111
8 Emotional Rescue: The Sopranos (HBO 1999–2007), ER (NBC 1994–) and State of Play (BBC1 2003)......Page 126
9 Feminising Television: the Mother Role in Six Feet Under (HBO 2001–6) and Brothers & Sisters (ABC 2006–)......Page 139
10 Researching Emotion in Television: a small-scale case study of emotion in the UK/Irish soap industry......Page 153
Bibliography......Page 167
Index......Page 184