Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage with Dark Television (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526152176)

Game of Thrones was an international sensation, and has been looked at from many different angles. But to date there has been little research into its audiences: who they were, how they engaged with and responded to it. This book presents the findings of a major international research project that garnered more than 10,000 responses to an innovative 'qualiquantitative' questionnaire. Among its findings are: a new way of understanding the place and role of favourite characters in audiences' responses; new insights into the role of fantasy in encouraging thinking about our own world; and an account of two combined emotions - relish and anguish - which structure audiences' reactions to controversial elements in the series.

Author: Martin Barker, Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood
ISBN-10: 1526152177
ISBN-13: 9781526152176
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2021
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d