Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Puzzling Viewing

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   Pages 1-24

3. Favourites, TV and Home: Psychosocial Perspectives

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   Pages 25-49

4. Psychosocial Methods and Audience Research

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   Pages 50-72

5. Spending Too Much Time Watching TV?

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   Pages 73-97

6. Favourite Things: Objects in the Life of a Castaway

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   Pages 98-120

7. Mothers, Sons, Siblings and the Imaginative World of Working-Class Women’s Viewing

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   Pages 121-147

8. Risky Viewing and Risky Method?: Psychoanalysis, Method and Defended Viewing

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   Pages 148-165

9. Conclusion: Viewing Is Psychosocial

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   Pages 166-183

10. Back Matter

    Pages 184-204

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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.

• Psychosocial
• Psychosocial Studies
• Audience Research
• Television Audiences
• Film Audiences
• Television Viewing
• Psychoanalysis
• Media Studies
• film
• methods
• television
• media research

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.

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