Paper Title
Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage with Dark Television
Keywords
- watching game of thrones
- game of thrones
- audiences
- audience engagement
- dark television
- favourite characters
- fantasy
- relish and anguish
- controversial elements
- emotions
- television audiences
- qualiquantitative questionnaire
- 10
- 000 responses
- international research
- viewer response
- thinking about our own world
- media reception
- tv fandom
- television studies
- character identification
- viewer psychology
- emotional response
- popular culture
- fantasy television
- viewer analysis
- audiences for game of thrones
- favourite survivors
- winter is coming
- gender studies
- sexualities
- porn studies
Journal
Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage with Dark Television
Publication Info
| Pages: 1-208
Published On
June, 2021
Downloads
Abstract
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.
View more »