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Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

Ordinary Audience

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Jo Whitehouse-Hart
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Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Puzzling Viewing

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 1-24

  3. Favourites, TV and Home: Psychosocial Perspectives

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 25-49

  4. Psychosocial Methods and Audience Research

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 50-72

  5. Spending Too Much Time Watching TV?

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 73-97

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

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 98-120

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

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 121-147

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

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 148-165

  9. Conclusion: Viewing Is Psychosocial

    • Jo Whitehouse-Hart
    Pages 166-183

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 184-204
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About this book

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.

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.

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