Psychosocial explorations of film and television viewing : ordinary audience /

Most people have, at some point in their lives, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. "Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing" takes as its subject the seemingly mundane...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Whitehouse-Hart, Jo (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:	Studies in the psychosocial.
Subjects:	Mass media > Audiences > Psychology. Motion picture audiences > Psychology. Television viewers > Psychology. Motion pictures > Psychological aspects. Television > Psychological aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Puzzling Viewing
1. Favourites, TV and Home: Psychosocial Perspectives
2. Psychosocial Methods and Audience Research
3. Spending Too Much Time Watching TV?
4. Favourite Things: Evocative Objects in the Life of a Castaway
5. Mothers, Sons, Siblings and The Imaginative World of Working Class Women's Viewing
6. Risky Viewing and Risky Method?
7. Conclusion: Viewing is Psychosocial.