Television and the Embodied Viewer - Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age

List of contents

Chapter One: Television, Sensation, and Meaning
Chapter Two: Watching Television: Bodies on Both Sides of the Screen
Chapter Three: Mad Men: The Pleasures and Perils of Food and Drink
Chapter Four: Performing Little Womanhood: The Multisensory Experience of Dwarfism
Chapter Five: Meditating with Corpses: Six Feet Under, Decaying Bodies, and the Transcendent
Chapter Six: Conclusion

About the author

Marsha F. Cassidy, newly retired as a Senior Lecturer, teaches media studies in the Department of English and in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a television scholar with interests in television history, feminism, disability studies, and research on the body. Her first book, What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s, offers a feminist perspective on popular women’s genres.

Summary

Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium’s capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV’s multisensory appeal builds viewer empathy and animates meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Marsha F. Cassidy, Cassidy Marsha F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032400792
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240079-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society