| Autore |
Ames Melissa <1978->
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , [2020]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (viii, 311 pages) : illustrations
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| Disciplina |
791.4572
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| Collana |
Kentucky scholarship online
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| Soggetto topico |
Collective memory and television - United States - History - 21st century
Social media and television - United States - History - 21st century
Television programs - Social aspects - United States
Television programs - Psychological aspects - United States
Anxiety on television
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| ISBN |
0-8131-8007-4
0-8131-8008-2
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction : Watching (and feeling) contemporary American TV : Understanding the relationship among societal conflict, technological advancement, and television programming -- Part I. Post-9/11 televisual trends : Analyzing the affectual climate on and off the small screen -- Screening terror : How 9/11 affected twenty-first-century televisual fiction -- Escaping reality by watching reality TV? Voyeurism, schadenfreude, and other coping mechanisms for avoiding or engaging in societal reflection -- Performing and experiencing anger (through humor) : Infotainment's increased visibility and political effect -- Part II. Mediating fear and anger : How televisual affect reflects and influences current cultural conflicts -- "All the best cowboys have daddy issues" : A psychoanalytic reading of the father-child relationships on ABC's Lost -- The trauma of post-apocalyptic motherhood : The walking dead's social commentary on contemporary gender roles -- A country (still) divided : How recent vampire series use nostalgia to comment on current issues related to gender, race, and sexuality -- Fictionalizing Ferguson in prime-time dramas : Interrogating the potentialities and consequences of remediating events that are still in progress -- Part III. Amplifying affect : Twenty-first-century viewing practices - From fandom to digital activism and beyond -- Live tweets as social commentary? Analyzing how gender, race, and sexuality play into conceptions of morality in How to get away with murder -- Defending The bachelorette : What online comments from reality TV fans reveal about contemporary gender expectations, and live-tweeting as a form of feminist digital activism -- "I'm (not) with her" : How the political commentary surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election reflects anxieties concerning gender equality -- Conclusion : Screening emotion, archiving affect, circulating feelings : Final thoughts and even more questions.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910573065003321 |
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Small screen, big feels : television and cultural anxiety in the twenty-first century / / Melissa Ames
