Emotional Expressionism

E. Deidre Pribram

doi:10.5771/9781793646798

Summary

In Emotional Expressionism: Television Seriality, the Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality, E. Deidre Pribram examines emotions as social relations through the lens of dramatic television serials as contemporary melodrama. She develops the concept of socioemotionality, addressing sociocultural forms of felt experience and exploring the role of emotions in forging narrative worlds. Through detailed analyses of serials like Killing Eve, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Pribram argues that the prominent role emotions play in popular mediated narratives demonstrates the crucial impact of collective emotions—activated through aesthetic attributes—on cultural storytelling. Scholars of television, communication, media, and cultural studies will find this book of particular relevance.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4678-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4679-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 254
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Note No access
1. 1. Relationality No access
  2. Meaningfulness No access
  3. Public Sentiments No access
  4. Socioemotionality No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Spectacle and Sentiment No access
  2. Emotional Strength No access
  3. Modernity and Questions of Justice No access
  4. Vernacular Modernism No access
  5. Serialization No access
  6. Defining Television Seriality No access
  7. Engaging The Wire No access
  8. Notes No access
3. 1. Aesthetic Expressionism No access
  2. Melodramatic Expressionism No access
  3. Socioemotional Expressionism No access
  4. Under Pressure in Happy Valley No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. Taxonomic and Identification Approaches to Characterization No access
  2. Emotions in Multi-Protagonist Narratives No access
  3. Ensemble Murder No access
  4. Fluid Emotional Positioning No access
  5. Emotional Communities and Mobile Audiences No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Scant Emotional Equilibrium No access
  2. Daytime Dramatic Serials No access
  3. Contrastive Emotional Qualities No access
  4. Varying Emotional Intensities No access
  5. Waving Moods No access
  6. Rolling Resolutions No access
  7. Finale No access
  8. Notes No access
3. 1. Tone/Mood/Atmosphere No access
  2. Emotional Variations on a Generic Theme No access
  3. Mediating Nostalgia No access
  4. Period Drama as Nostalgic Mood: Mad Men No access
  5. Period Drama as Nostalgic Style: Mrs. Maisel No access
  6. Feeling Historically and Collectively No access
  7. Notes No access
4. 1. Mediated Public Emotions No access
  2. Collective Emotions No access
  3. Through the Lens of Nationality No access
  4. Gender as Imagined Culture No access
  5. Emotional Communities No access
  6. Anger and Social Injustice No access
  7. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 213 - 220
References No access Pages 221 - 240
Index No access Pages 241 - 252
About the Author No access Pages 253 - 254