Small Screen, Big Feels : Television and Cultural Anxiety in the Twenty-First Century /

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"While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commerci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ames, Melissa, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Anxiety on television.
Television programs > Psychological aspects > United States.
Television programs > Social aspects > United States.
Television and social media > United States > History > 21st century.
Collective memory and television > United States > History > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Watching (and feeling) contemporary TV : understanding the relationship among societal conflict, technological advancement, and television programming
  • Screening terror : how 9/11 affected twenty-first-century televisual fiction
  • Escaping reality by watching reality TV? Voyeurism, schadenfreude, and other coping mechanisms for avoiding or engaging in societal reflection
  • Performing and experiencing anger (through humor) : infotainment's increased visibility and political effect
  • "All the best cowboys have daddy issues" : a psychoanalytic reading of the father-child relationships on ABC's Lost
  • The trauma of post-apocalyptic motherhood : The walking dead's social commentary on contemporary gender roles
  • A country (still) divided : how vampire series use nostalgia to comment on current issues related to gender, race, and sexuality
  • Fictionalizing Ferguson in prime-time dramas : interrogating the potentialities and consequences of remediating events that are still in progress
  • Live tweets as social commentary? Analyzing how gender, race, and sexuality play into conceptions of morality in How to get away with murder
  • Defending the Bachelorette : what online comments from reality TV fans reveal about contemporary gender expectations, and livetweeting as a form of feminist digital activism
  • "I'm (not) with her" : how the political commentary surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election reflects anxieties concerning gender equality
  • Conclusion : screening emotion, archiving affect, circulating feelings : final thoughts and even more questions.

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