Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing
Author | : Jo Whitehouse-Hart |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137465146 |
ISBN-13 | : 113746514X |
Rating | : 4/5 (14X Downloads) |
Download or read book Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing written by Jo Whitehouse-Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and television viewing in the home is in fact extraordinary.