Watching Game of Thrones
How Audiences Engage with Dark Television
Clarissa Smith author Martin Barker author Feona Attwood author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Published:27th Jun '23
Should be back in stock very soon
Game of Thrones was an international sensation, and has been looked at from many different angles. But to date there has been little research into its audiences: who they were, how they engaged with and responded to it. This book presents the findings of a major international research project that garnered more than 10,000 responses to an innovative 'qualiquantitative' questionnaire. Among its findings are: a new way of understanding the place and role of favourite characters in audiences’ responses; new insights into the role of fantasy in encouraging thinking about our own world; and an account of two combined emotions – relish and anguish – which structure audiences’ reactions to controversial elements in the series.
'Watching Game of Thrones offers a valuable contribution to large-scale audience research projects and to Game of Thrones scholarship.'
Critical Studies on Television
ISBN: 9781526171948
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
Weight: 304g
208 pages