{"product_id":"uncomfortable-television-hunter-hargraves-9781478016939","title":"Uncomfortable Television","description":"From \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eIntervention\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eGirls\u003c\/i\u003e, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it bombards audiences with misogynistic and racialized violence, graphic sex, substance abuse, unlikeable protagonists, and the extraordinary exploitation of ordinary people. In \u003ci\u003eUncomfortable Television\u003c\/i\u003e, Hunter Hargraves examines how television makes its audiences find pleasure through feeling disturbed. He shows that this turn to discomfort realigns collective definitions of family and pleasure with the values of neoliberal culture. In viscerally violent dramas, cringeworthy ironic comedies, and trashy reality programs alike, televisual unease trains audiences to survive under late capitalism, which demands that individuals accept a certain amount of discomfort, dread, and irritation into their everyday lives. By highlighting how discomfort has been central to the reorganization and legitimization of television as an art form, Hargraves demonstrates television's role in assimilating viewers into worlds marked by precarity, perversity, and crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hunter Hargraves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478016930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478016939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023","brand":"Hunter Hargraves","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071493337343,"sku":"9781478016939","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_27327755-e63f-4b35-b0c2-b79f06cff5ce.jpg?v=1685436426","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uncomfortable-television-hunter-hargraves-9781478016939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}