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Strategic Pleasure: Gendered Anger As Collective Emotion In Wanted, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.
Strategic Pleasure: Gendered Anger As Collective Emotion In Wanted, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.
Faculty Publications: Communication
Much current television analysis focuses on the impending demise of the medium,[1] in which audiences are conjectured to splinter into ever more fragmented, minute bundles of viewers, in the aftermath of a proliferating multi-channel environment and as we move further into the digital era with its ever-enhanced viewing options. However, one of the advantages of digitalisation, in the current environment that forces program providers to compete for proportionately harder-to-come-by content to offer consumers, is the increasing availability of international series. Audiences are no longer necessarily – albeit, in the US still dominantly – confined to national fare, but can seek …
Storied Feelings: Emotions, Culture, Media, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.
Storied Feelings: Emotions, Culture, Media, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.
Faculty Publications: Communication
Mass mediated emotional experiences are central to late modern subjectivity. Narrative storytelling creates public sites where audiences encounter and negotiate shared sociocultural circumstances rendered in aesthetic terms. Popular narratives move us by providing access, through felt recognition, to aspects of our emotional existence that would otherwise remain inexpressible. Using examples from film, this chapter explores how emotions as public events, constituted as part of collectively experienced social, cultural, and historical conditions, are enacted or realized through narrative media.