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OverviewFrom The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it bombards audiences with misogynistic and racialized violence, graphic sex, substance abuse, unlikeable protagonists, and the extraordinary exploitation of ordinary people. In Uncomfortable Television, Hunter Hargraves examines how television makes its audiences find pleasure through feeling disturbed. He shows that this turn to discomfort realigns collective definitions of family and pleasure with the values of neoliberal culture. In viscerally violent dramas, cringeworthy ironic comedies, and trashy reality programs alike, televisual unease trains audiences to survive under late capitalism, which demands that individuals accept a certain amount of discomfort, dread, and irritation into their everyday lives. By highlighting how discomfort has been central to the reorganization and legitimization of television as an art form, Hargraves demonstrates television's role in assimilating viewers into worlds marked by precarity, perversity, and crisis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hunter HargravesPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781478016939ISBN 10: 1478016930 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 20 January 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Television Scripts 1 1. The Irritated Spectator: Affective Representation in (Post)millennial Comedy 27 2. The Addicted Spectator: TV Junkies in Need of an Intervention 57 3. The Aborted Spectator: Affective Economies of Perversion in Televisual Remix 89 4. The Spectator Plagued by White Guilt: On the Appropriative Intermediality of Quality TV 121 5. The Woke Spectator: Misrecognizing Discomfort in the Era of “Peak TV” 162 Notes 197 Bibliography 219 Index 239Reviews"""Uncomfortable Television is an interesting work that raises many compelling questions about the relationship between televisual content and our own processing of reality and invites further discussion on affect theory and how affect potentially shapes most of our behavior. It is an insightful read for academics, political theorists, and students of many strands of humanities . . . ."" -- Ana Yorke * Popmatters *" Author InformationHunter Hargraves is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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