Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing: Ordinary Audience

by Jo Whitehouse-Hart

Overview

Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230362833
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/31/2014
Series:	Studies in the Psychosocial
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jo Whitehouse-Hart is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published in the areas of television and psychoanalysis, audience research, and the creative industries using psychoanalytic and psychosocial perspectives and methods.

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