Hunter Hargraves

Uncomfortable Television

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Produktbeschreibung

Hunter Hargraves examines how postmillennial television made its audiences find pleasure through discomfort, showing that 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019572
• ISBN-10: 1478019573
• Artikelnr.: 64048766

Autorenporträt

Hunter Hargraves is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Television Scripts  1
1. The Irritated Spectator: Affective Representation in (Post)millennial
Comedy  27
2. The Addicted Spectator: TV Junkies in Need of an Intervention  57
3. The Aborted Spectator: Affective Economies of Perversion in Televisual
Remix  89
4. The Spectator Plagued by White Guilt: On the Appropriative
Intermediality of Quality TV  121
5. The Woke Spectator: Misrecognizing Discomfort in the Era of “Peak TV” 
162
Notes  197
Bibliography  219
Index  239