Emotions in Contemporary TV Series

This edited collection offers a wide range of essays showcasing current research on emotions in TV series. The chapters develop from a variety of research traditions in film, television and media studies and explores American, British, Nordic and Spanish TV series.

• Television
• Mad Men
• Breaking Bad
• Collective identity
• Antiheroes
• Affect
• Serial Narrative
• TV Horror
• Fear
• Distrust
• The Walking Dead
• Nordic Noir
• Nostalgia
• Science fiction
• Psychotherapy
• Emotion and Gender
• media studies
• cultural studies
• emotion
• film

“I have engaged intensively in the study of television series but my main interest is with reception studies and the related empirical research. Having said that, I find media studies’ way of grounding theoretical development in contemporary popular culture very compelling. It is a persuasive way of adapting Haraway’s claim that all knowledge is historically contingent rather than universal … . And Emotions in Contemporary TV Series does exactly that. Thus, it is very instructive for scholars and aficionados alike.” (Daniela Schlütz, Projections, Vol. 15 (1), 2021)

• University of Navarra, Spain

  Alberto N. García

Alberto N. García is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Navarra, Spain. He has been Visiting Scholar at Fordham University, USA and Visiting Professor at the University of Stirling, UK, George Washington University, USA, and Universidad de los Andes, Chile. He has published his work in journals such as Post Script, Comunicación y Sociedad, Zer and Analisi. He is co-editor of Landscapes of the Self. The Cinema of Ross McElwee (2007), and author of El cine de no-ficción en Martín Patino (2008).

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