Watching <i>Game of Thrones</i> (eBook)

How audiences engage with dark television

Martin Barker, Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
208 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5216-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Game of Thrones was an international sensation, and has been looked at from many different angles. But to date there has been little research into its audiences: who they were, how they engaged with and responded to it. This book presents the findings of a major international research project that garnered more than 10,000 responses to an innovative 'qualiquantitative' questionnaire. Among its findings are: a new way of understanding the place and role of favourite characters in audiences' responses; new insights into the role of fantasy in encouraging thinking about our own world; and an account of two combined emotions - relish and anguish - which structure audiences' reactions to controversial elements in the series.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Schlagworte: Audience orientations • Dark Fantasy • Fantasy • Favourite characters • Game of Thrones • Imagining worlds • international project • media audiences • Qualiquantitative research • Television
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-5216-9 / 1526152169
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-5216-9 / 9781526152169