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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828700903321

Titolo

Political emotions : new agendas in communication / / edited by Janet Staiger, Ann Cvetkovich, and Ann Reynolds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-95602-6

1-136-95603-4

1-282-73297-8

9786612732973

0-203-84953-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

New agendas in communication series

Altri autori (Persone)

CvetkovichAnn <1957->

ReynoldsAnn Morris

StaigerJanet

Disciplina

320.01/4

Soggetti

Communication in politics - Psychological aspects

Emotions - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Political Emotions and Public Feelings; Chapter 1 On Affect and Protest; Chapter 2 Televising Guantánamo: Transmissions of Feeling During the Bush Years; Chapter 3 Babies Who Touch You: Reborn Dolls, Artists, and the Emotive Display of Bodies on eBay; Chapter 4 The Transmission of Gothic: Feeling, Philosophy, and the Media of Udolpho; Chapter 5 Feeling Bad in 1963; Chapter 6 Three Poems and a Pandemic; Chapter 7 In the Air; Chapter 8 Archive, Affect, and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions

Chapter 9 The Halting Grammar of Intimacy: Watching An American Family's Final EpisodeChapter 10 Servicing the World: Flexible Filipinos and the Unsecured Life; Chapter 11 Thinking about Feeling Historical; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Political Emotions explores the contributions that the study of discourses, rhetoric, and framing of emotion make to understanding



the public sphere, civil society and the political realm. Tackling critiques on the opposition of the public and private spheres, chapters in this volume examine why some sentiments are valued in public communication while others are judged irrelevant, and consider how sentiments mobilize political trajectories.Emerging from the work of the Public Feelings research group at the University of Texas-Austin, and cohering in a New Agendas in Communication symposium, th