TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorton, Kristyn
TI  - Media audiences : television, meaning and emotion
SN  - 074862418X
U1  - 302.23 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh Uni. Press
N1  - CONTENTS Acknowledgements   vi Preface : emotion, engagements and orientation viii Introduction : why study television?  1 Part 1 : Theoretical background 1 'Desperately Seeking the Audience' : models of audience reception  11 2  Personal Meanings, Fandom and Sitting Too Close to the Television  30 3  Global Meanings and Trans-cultural Understandings of Dallas  45 4  Theorising Emotion and Affect: feminist engagements  55 5  Theorising Emotion in Film and Television 72 Part 2 : Case studies 6  A Sentimental Journey: writing emotion in television 89 7  'There's No Place Like Home': emotional exposure, excess and empathy on TV 100 8  Emotional Rescue : The Sopranos (HBO 1999-2007), ER (NEC 1994-) and State of Play (BBC1 2003)  115 9  Feminising Television : the Mother Role in Six Feet Under (HBO 2001-6) and Brothers fr Sisters (ABC 2006-)128 10 Researching Emotion in Television : a small-scale case study of emotion in the UK/Irish soap industry  142 Bibliography  156 Index 173
ER  -