Television and the Embodied Viewer
Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2020
216 pages
978-1-315-28264-0 (ISBN)
Description
Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium's capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV's multisensory appeal builds viewer empathy and animates meaning.
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
20 Zeichnungen
ISBN-13
978-1-315-28264-0 (9781315282640)
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Person
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.
Content
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
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
