Watching Game of Thrones
How Audiences Engage with Dark Television
1st Edition
Published on 23. March 2021
208 pages
978-1-5261-5218-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-5218-3 (9781526152183)
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Martin Barker | Clarissa Smith | Feona Attwood
Watching Game of Thrones
How Audiences Engage with Dark Television
Book
06/2023
Manchester University Press
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Martin Barker | Clarissa Smith | Feona Attwood
Watching Game of Thrones
How Audiences Engage with Dark Television
Book
03/2021
Manchester University Press
€125.10
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Persons
Martin Barker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University and Visiting Professor at UWE Bristol
Clarissa Smith is Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University
Feona Attwood is an editor of the journals Sexualities and Porn Studies -- .
Clarissa Smith is Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University
Feona Attwood is an editor of the journals Sexualities and Porn Studies -- .
Content
1 The remarkable phenomenon that is Game of Thrones
2 Generating a 'richly structured combination of data and discourses'
3 Distinguishing different kinds of audience
4 Favourite characters, favourite survivors
5 The significance of favourite character choices
6 Winter is coming...
7 Conflicts and controversies
8 Making predictions for an unpredictable world
Postscript: 'If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention'
Index -- .
2 Generating a 'richly structured combination of data and discourses'
3 Distinguishing different kinds of audience
4 Favourite characters, favourite survivors
5 The significance of favourite character choices
6 Winter is coming...
7 Conflicts and controversies
8 Making predictions for an unpredictable world
Postscript: 'If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention'
Index -- .
