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Small screen, big feels : television and cultural anxiety in the twenty-first century / Melissa Ames.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ames, Melissa, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory and television--United States--History--21st century.
- Collective memory and television.
- Television programs--Social aspects.
- Television programs.
- Social media and television.
- History.
- United States.
- Social media and television--United States--History--21st century.
- Television programs--Social aspects--United States.
- Television programs--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- Anxiety on television.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813180090
- 0813180090
- Publisher Number:
- 40030178804
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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