Small Screen, Big Feels (eBook)

lt;P>Melissa Ames is professor of English and director of English education at Eastern Illinois University. She is a coeditor of Women and Language: Gendered Communication Across Media, the editor of Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming, and a coauthor of How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life: From Toddlers-in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the-Prowl.

Introduction: Watching (and Feeling) Contemporary American TVScreening Terror: How 9/11 Affected Twenty-first-Century Televisual FictionEscaping Reality by Watching Reality TV? Voyeurism, Schadenfreude, and Other Coping Mechanisms for Avoiding or Engaging in Societal ReflectionPerforming and Experiencing Anger (through Humor): Infotainment's Increased Visibility and Political Effect"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues": A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Father-Child Relationships on ABC's LostThe Trauma of Post-Apocalyptic Motherhood: The Walking Dead's Social Commentary on Contemporary Gender RolesA Country (Still) Divided: How Recent Vampire Series Use Nostalgia to Comment on Current Issues Related to Gender, Race, and SexualityFictionalizing Ferguson in Prime-Time Dramas: Interrogating the Potentialities and Consequences of Remediating Events That Are Still in ProgressLive Tweets as Social Commentary? Analyzing How Gender, Race, and Sexuality Play into Conceptions of Morality in How to Get Away with MurderDefending The Bachelorette: What Online Comments from Reality TV Fans Reveal about Contemporary Gender Expectations, and Live-Tweeting as a Form of Feminist Digital Activism"I'm (Not) with Her": How the Political Commentary Surrounding the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Reflects Anxieties Concerning Gender EqualityConclusion: Screening Emotion, Archiving Affect, Circulating Feelings: Final Thoughts and Even More Questions