Psychosocial explorations of film and television viewing : ordinary audience / Jo Whitehouse-Hart.

Title
  1. Psychosocial explorations of film and television viewing : ordinary audience / Jo Whitehouse-Hart.
Published by
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Author
  1. Whitehouse-Hart, Jo

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Description
  1. viii, 204 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. 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 and everyday activity of watching television and films in the home, arguing that the affective and emotional experiences generated for audiences make this activity in fact extraordinary. Based on a fascinating empirical study of audiences' "favourite" films and television programmes, the book unravels the biographical and emotional intensity of viewing, from a psychosocial perspective. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis including the work of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion and Christopher Bollas, and sociological theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that viewing is a psychosocial activity which must consider the relationships and processes between "inner" and "outer" worlds. Important ideas from media audience research are revisited, to show that families and biographical experiences influence audience identification, interpretation and uses of television. The in-depth case studies show that whilst viewing can be pleasurable, in the conventional sense of enjoyment, it can also be anxiety-provoking and contradictory. Employing psychoanalytic methods for social and cultural research, this book is an important contribution to Media Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies and Psychosocial Studies.
Series statement
  1. Studies in the psychosocial
Uniform title
  1. Studies in the psychosocial
Subject
  1. Mass media > Psychology
  2. Motion picture audiences > Psychology
  3. Television viewers > Psychology
  4. Motion pictures > Psychological aspects
  5. Television > Psychological aspects
  6. Film
  7. Fernsehen
  8. Massenmedien
  9. Zuschauer
  10. Psychologie
  11. Mass media > Psychology
  12. Media Studies
  13. Media studies: TV & society
  14. PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
  15. Psychology
  16. Television viewers > Psychology
  17. TV & society
Contents
  1. Introduction : puzzling viewing -- Favourites, TV and home : psychosocial perspectives -- Psychosocial methods and audience research -- Spending too much time watching TV? -- Favourite things : objects in the life of a Castaway -- Mothers, sons, siblings and the imaginative world of working-class women's viewing -- Risky viewing and risky method? : psychoanalysis, method and defended viewing -- Conclusion : viewing is psychosocial.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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