Gorton, Kristyn <br/><br/>
Media audiences: television, meaning and emotion/ 
Kristyn Gorton 
 - Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press,  2009. 
 - ix, 176 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - (Media topics) .
<br/><br/>Introduction : why study television? --<br/>pt. 1. Theoretical background --<br/>'Desperately seeking the audience' : models of audience reception --<br/>Personal meanings, fandom and sitting too close to the television --<br/>Global meanings and trans-cultural understandings of Dallas --<br/>Theorising emotion and affect : feminist engagements --<br/>Theorising emotion in film and television --<br/>pt. 2. Case studies --<br/>A sentimental journey : writing emotion in television --<br/>'There's no place like home" : emotional exposure, excess and empathy on TV --<br/>Emotional rescue : The Sopranos (HBO 1999-2007, ER (NBC 1994- ) and State of play (BBC1 2003) --<br/>Feminising television : the mother role in Six feet under (HBO 2001-6) and Brothers & sisters (ABC 2006- ) --<br/>Researching emotion in television : a small-scale case study of emotion in the UK/Irish sop industry. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748624171 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television viewers--Psychology<br/>Emotions--Sociological aspects<br/>Mass media--Audiences<br/>Television viewers<br/>Television
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23  / GOR/M