Gorton, Kristyn, <br/><br/>
Media audiences :  television, meaning and emotion / 
Kristyn Gorton. 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  2009. 
 - 176 p. 
 - Media topics .
<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. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M08 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748624188 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media--Audiences.<br/>Television viewers--Psychology.<br/>Emotions--Sociological aspects.<br/>Mass media--Audiences<br/>Television viewers--Psychology<br/>Emotions--Sociological aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P96  / G675 M 2009