01577cam a22002417a 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059050002100067100002100088245007400109260005200183300001100235490001700246505084500263505001701108518001501125650002701140650003601167650003601203650002601239650003501265650003501300110818s2009    stk      b    001 0 eng    a9780748624188  aSDU00aP96bG675 M 20091 aGorton, Kristyn,10aMedia audiences :btelevision, meaning and emotion /cKristyn Gorton.  aEdinburgh :bEdinburgh University Press,c2009.  a176 p.1 aMedia topics0 aIntroduction : 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.0 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M08 0aMass mediaxAudiences. 0aTelevision viewersxPsychology. 0aEmotionsxSociological aspects. 0aMass mediaxAudiences 0aTelevision viewersxPsychology 0aEmotionsxSociological aspects