Watching Game of Thrones: How audiences engage with dark television - Hardcover

Barker, Martin; Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona

 
9781526152176: Watching Game of Thrones: How audiences engage with dark television
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526152177 ISBN 13: 9781526152176
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Martin Barker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University and Visiting Professor at UWE Bristol Clarissa Smith is Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University Feona Attwood is an editor of the journals Sexualities and Porn Studies

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‘This is the best summary of all the work out there on Game of Thrones I have read. The authors have extensively researched audience reactions and existing work on audience research. I would say that it will prove itself to be a "must-buy" for GoT fans and scholars alike.’
Kim Akass, Professor of Radio, Television and Film, Rowan University

HBO’s television adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones was an international sensation, generating intense debates and controversies throughout its run. This book draws on ambitious international research that used innovative methods to gather information from over ten-thousand viewers of the series. It details seven distinct ways in which audiences watched the series and how these led to different responses and judgements.

The book considers the claim that Game of Thrones can be seen as a lens for thinking about the world by exploring how viewers engaged with the series’ characters, lands and peoples and how they understood its world in relation to their own. It examines how some of the show’s more shocking scenes were understood and appreciated as examples of ‘extreme storytelling’ while others were angrily rejected, and it reflects on what this suggests about broader debates on television and representations of violence. And in the wake of the controversy over the show’s final series, it explores how audiences make sense of ‘endings’.

Watching Game of Thrones makes an important contribution to understanding the role that fantasy plays in contemporary society, to the study of television audiences and to research on audiences, fans and engagements with media more generally.

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'This is the best summary of all the work out there on Game of Thrones I have read. The authors have extensively researched audience reactions and existing work on audience research. I would say that it will prove itself to be a "must-buy" for GoT fans and scholars alike.' Kim Akass, Professor of Radio, Television and Film, Rowan University HBO's television adaptation of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones was an international sensation, generating intense debates and controversies throughout its run. This book draws on ambitious international research that used innovative methods to gather information from over ten-thousand viewers of the series. It details seven distinct ways in which audiences watched the series and how these led to different responses and judgements. The book considers the claim that Game of Thrones can be seen as a lens for thinking about the world by exploring how viewers engaged with the series' characters, lands and peoples and how they understood its world in relation to their own. It examines how some of the show's more shocking scenes were understood and appreciated as examples of 'extreme storytelling' while others were angrily rejected, and it reflects on what this suggests about broader debates on television and representations of violence. And in the wake of the controversy over the show's final series, it explores how audiences make sense of 'endings'. Watching Game of Thrones makes an important contribution to understanding the role that fantasy plays in contemporary society, to the study of television audiences and to research on audiences, fans and engagements with media more generally.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526152177
ISBN 13 
9781526152176
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
210
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