Television Characters, Genre and Emotion

Investigates viewer engagement with fictional and non-fictional television characters across a wide range of genres.
Relating to television characters on an emotional level is one of the principal pleasures of watching television. Yet how exactly programmes from different genres elicit feelings for their characters remains an understudied subject. Television Characters, Genre and Emotion investigates the relationship between television viewers and characters from a wide range of contemporary genres (e.g., animation, drama, sports, reality TV). This book is driven by the argument that our affective response to television characters emanates from the distinct narrative and aesthetic arrangement of individual television texts and our long-term engagement with said texts. Television Characters, Genre and Emotion broadens the academic discourse on television temporality and emotion while providing readers with an overview of theoretical approache