Watching Game of thrones : how audiences engage with dark television /
How did audiences across the world engage with the blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones? This book presents the findings of a major research project that gathered the responses of more than 10,000 people. Its findings challenge many conventional approaches and open up new ways of thinking about the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21995669 |
| Summary: | How did audiences across the world engage with the blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones? This book presents the findings of a major research project that gathered the responses of more than 10,000 people. Its findings challenge many conventional approaches and open up new ways of thinking about the value of contemporary 'fantasy'. |
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| Item Description: | 1 The remarkable phenomenon that is <i>Game of Thrones</i>2 Generating a 'richly structured combination of data and discourses'3 Distinguishing different kinds of audience4 Favourite characters, favourite survivors5 The significance of favourite character choices6 Winter is coming...7 Conflicts and controversies8 Making predictions for an unpredictable worldPostscript: 'If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention'Index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781526152169 1526152169 9781526152183 1526152185 9781526152176 (hbk.) 9781526152176 |