Watching "Game of Thrones": how audiences engage with dark television
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Main Authors: Barker, Martin 1946- (Author), Smith, Clarissa (Author), Attwood, Feona 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 2021
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Links:https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526152183
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526152183
Abstract: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.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 200 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9781526152183
9781526152169
DOI:10.7765/9781526152183