Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing
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Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

Ordinary Audience

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eBook - ePub

Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

Ordinary Audience

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Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
ISBN
9781137465146
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Personality in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Introduction: Puzzling Viewing
  4. 1  Favourites, TV and Home: Psychosocial Perspectives
  5. 2  Psychosocial Methods and Audience Research
  6. 3  Spending Too Much Time Watching TV?
  7. 4  Favourite Things: Objects in the Life of a Castaway
  8. 5  Mothers, Sons, Siblings and the Imaginative World of Working-Class Womens Viewing
  9. 6  Risky Viewing and Risky Method?: Psychoanalysis, Method and Defended Viewing
  10. Conclusion: Viewing Is Psychosocial
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index