{"product_id":"hopeful-vision-helen-piper-9781399513814","title":"Hopeful Vision: Entertainment on the Small Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis monograph recuperates the concept of entertainment as a legitimate basis for 'small screen' criticism. It suggests that critical approaches to television might treat the text as an object of potential which actively engages and \u003ci\u003eprovides for\u003c\/i\u003e aesthetic experience through entertainment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aesthetic experience is characterised by emotion, and this study shows how the textual production of specifically forward feelings such as anticipation, aspiration, fear or dread may be mobilised and made sense of, shaping our sense of the future and its objects of hope. The argument is demonstrated by case studies arranged from 'light' to 'dark' in tone - as varied as \u003ci\u003eEurovision\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuccession\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Repair Shop\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/i\u003e - showing how these provide potentially significant, affecting encounters that are 'hopeful' in varying degrees and guises. Hope is adopted both as a theme of analysis and as a critical strategy of interpretation which privileges entertainment efficacy, and thus moves towards a more viewer-centric appreciation of cultural value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Piper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399513818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399513814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Helen Piper","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47039869059327,"sku":"9781399513814","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad3c5acb-81ce-41ac-a481-0d945e82a5b1.jpg?v=1752752819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hopeful-vision-helen-piper-9781399513814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}