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

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Watching Game of Thrones cover

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