Gorton, Kristyn,  1972- <br/><br/>
Media audiences :  television, meaning and emotion / 
[by] Kristyn Gorton 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  2009 
 - ix, 176 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Media topics .
 - Media topics .
<br/><br/>Bibliography : p. [156]-172 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748624188  (pbk.) 9780748624171 (hbk.)  RM269.50 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media--Audiences<br/>Television viewers--Psychology<br/>Emotions--Sociological aspects<br/>Mass media--Audiences--Case studies<br/>Television viewers--Psychology--Case studies<br/>Emotions--Sociological aspects--Case studies