Emotions in Contemporary TV Series

Buch | Hardcover

253 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-56884-7 (ISBN)

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This edited collection offers a wide range of essays showcasing current research on emotions in TV series. The chapters develop from a variety of research traditions in film, television and media studies and explores American, British, Nordic and Spanish TV series.

Alberto N. García is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Navarra, Spain. He has been Visiting Scholar at Fordham University, USA and Visiting Professor at the University of Stirling, UK, George Washington University, USA, and Universidad de los Andes, Chile. He has published his work in journals such as Post Script, Comunicación y Sociedad, Zer and Analisi. He is co-editor of Landscapes of the Self. The Cinema of Ross McElwee (2007), and author of El cine de no-ficción en Martín Patino (2008).

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Alberto N. García
PART I: THEORETICAL AND GENERAL APPROACH
1. Emotional Culture and TV Narrative; Alejandro García and Ana Marta González
2. The Emergence of 'Affect' in Contemporary TV Fictions; Robin Nelson
3. Moral Emotions, Antiheroes and the Limits of Allegiance; Alberto N. García
4. Group Empathy? A Conceptual Proposal, Apropos of Polseres Vermelles; Héctor Pérez López
PART II: COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES AND EMOTIONS
5. Women, Television and Feelings: Theorizing Emotional Difference of Gender in SouthLAnd and Mad Men; Elke Weismann
6. A Revolution in Urban Lifestyle: Mad Men's Narrative Revisited as a Social Lab; Lourdes Flamarique
7. Performing Englishness: Postnational Nostalgia in Lark Rise to Candleford and Parade's End; Rosalía Baena
8. Nordic Noir Location, Identity and Emotion; Gunhild Agger
PART III: GENRE AND EMOTIONS
9. Loss is Part of the Deal: Love, Fear and Mourning in TV Horror; Stacey Abbott
10. Apocalyptic Psycotherapy: Emotion and Identity in AMC's The Walking Dead; Kyle W. Bishop
11. Homeland: Fear and Distrust as Key Elements of the Post-9/11 Political-Spy Thriller; Pablo Echart and Pablo Castrillo
12. Emotions in Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica: What Makes us Human; Claudia Wassmann
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.3.2016
Zusatzinfo	XI, 253 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-137-56884-4 / 1137568844
ISBN-13	978-1-137-56884-7 / 9781137568847
Zustand	Neuware