Small Screen, Big Feels : Television and Cultural Anxiety in the Twenty-First Century.

Intro -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Watching (and Feeling) Contemporary American TV: Understanding the Relationship among Societal Conflict, Technological Advancement, and Television Programming -- Part I. Post-9/11 Televisual Trends: Analyzing the Affectual Climate on and off the Small Screen -- 1. Screening Terror: How 9/11 Affected Twenty-first-Century Televisual Fiction -- 2. Escaping Reality by Watching Reality TV? Voyeurism, Schadenfreude, and Other Coping Mechanisms for Avoiding or Engaging in Societal Reflection -- 3. Performing and Experiencing Anger (through Humor): Infotainment's Increased Visibility and Political Effect -- Part II. Mediating Fear and Anger: How Televisual Affect Reflects and Influences Current Cultural Conflicts -- 4. "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues": A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Father-Child Relationships on ABC's Lost -- 5. The Trauma of Post-Apocalyptic Motherhood: The Walking Dead's Social Commentary on Contemporary Gender Roles -- 6. A Country (Still) Divided: How Recent Vampire Series Use Nostalgia to Comment on Current Issues Related to Gender, Race, and Sexuality -- 7. Fictionalizing Ferguson in Prime-Time Dramas: Interrogating the Potentialities and Consequences of Remediating Events That Are Still in Progress -- Part III. Amplifying Affect: Twenty-first-Century Viewing Practices-From Fandom to Digital Activism and Beyond -- 8. Live Tweets as Social Commentary? Analyzing How Gender, Race, and Sexuality Play into Conceptions of Morality in How to Get Away with Murder -- 9. Defending The Bachelorette: What Online Comments from Reality TV Fans Reveal about Contemporary Gender Expectations, and Live-Tweeting as a Form of Feminist Digital Activism.

10. "I'm (Not) with Her": How the Political Commentary Surrounding the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Reflects Anxieties Concerning Gender Equality -- Conclusion: Screening Emotion, Archiving Affect, Circulating Feelings: Final Thoughts and Even More Questions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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