Palgrave has published Identity and Emotions in Contemporary TV Series, a book that originates from an ICS international conference
The volume includes presentations from a 2013 conference organized by the Emotional Culture and Identity project, with the support of Zurich Insurance
Palgrave Macmillan has published a book entitled Emotions and TV Series (Palgrave Macmillan), which brings together papers form an international conference on Identity and Emotions in Contemporary TV Series. The event was organized in 2013 by the Emotional Culture and Identity project of the Institute for Culture and Society, with the support of Zurich Insurance.
Alberto N. Garcia, a professor within the School of Communication and an ICS collaborator, edited the volume. As he explains on his blog Diamantes en serie, the book "addresses the intersection between an emotional culture and serial stories from the perspective of sociology, narrative, feminism and cognitivism. The chapters in the book deal with genres defined by the feelings they arouse, such as terror or melodrama, as well as delve into successful series like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Homeland and Nordic Noir. It also contains debates on antiheorism, landscape as an affective element, and group empathy".
The chapters’ authors include noteworthy academics whose research focuses on television and related phenomena, such as Stacey Abbott, from the University of Roehampton (UK), Robin Nelson, of the University of London (UK), Kyle Bishop, from Southern Utah University (USA), and Elke Weissmann, from Edge Hill University (UK).
Table of contents- Emotional Culture and TV Narratives
Martínez, Alejandro García (et al.)
- The Emergence of ‘Affect’ in Contemporary TV Fictions
Nelson, Robin
- Moral Emotions, Antiheroes and the Limits of Allegiance
García, Alberto N.
- Group Empathy? A Conceptual Proposal, Apropos of Polseres Vermelles
Pérez, Héctor J.
- Women, Television and Feelings: Theorising Emotional Difference of Gender in Southland and Mad Men
Weissmann, Elke
- A Revolution in Urban Lifestyle: Mad Men’s Narrative Revisited as a Social Lab
Flamarique, Lourdes
- Performing Englishness: Postnational Nostalgia in Lark Rise to Candleford and Parades’ End
Baena, Rosalía
- Nordic Noir — Location, Identity and Emotion
Agger, Gunhild
- Loss is Part of the Deal: Love, Fear and Mourning in TV Horror
Abbott, Stacey
- Apocalyptic Psychotherapy: Emotion and Identity in AMC’s The Walking Dead
Bishop, Kyle William
- Homeland
Echart, Pablo (et al.)
- Emotions in Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica. What Makes us Human
Wassmann, Claudia