Television and the Embodied Viewer
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-24076-6 (ISBN)
The book draws extensively upon interpretive viewpoints in the humanities to shed light on a range of provocative television works, notably The Americans, Mad Men, Little Women: LA, and Six Feet Under, with emphasis on the dramatization of gender, disability, sex, childbearing, and death. Advocating a biocultural approach that takes into account the mind sciences, Cassidy argues that interpretive meanings, shaped within today’s dynamic cultural matrix, are amplified by somatic experience.
At a time when questions of embodiment and affect are crossing disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of television, film, and media studies, both in the humanities and cognitive traditions.
Marsha F. Cassidy, newly retired as a Senior Lecturer, teaches media studies in the Department of English and in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a television scholar with interests in television history, feminism, disability studies, and research on the body. Her first book, What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s, offers a feminist perspective on popular women’s genres.
Chapter One: Television, Sensation, and Meaning
Chapter Two: Watching Television: Bodies on Both Sides of the Screen
Chapter Three: Mad Men: The Pleasures and Perils of Food and Drink
Chapter Four: Performing Little Womanhood: The Multisensory Experience of Dwarfism
Chapter Five: Meditating with Corpses: Six Feet Under, Decaying Bodies, and the Transcendent
Chapter Six: Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Advances in Television Studies |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-24076-1 / 1138240761 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-24076-6 / 9781138240766 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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