TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorton,Kristyn
TI  - Media audiences: television, meaning and emotion 
T2  - Media topics
SN  - 9780748624188
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Audiences
KW  - Television viewers
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Case studies
N1  - Bibliography : p. [156]-172; 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
ER  -