Watching Game of Thrones

How Audiences Engage with Dark Television

Martin Barker, Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood , Sarah Ralph

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Manchester University Press
30 March 2021

Television; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Radio & television industry

The first major study of Game of Thrones audiences, presenting findings to understanding fantasy in contemporary societies.

Game of Thrones was an international sensation, and has been looked at from many different angles. But to date there has been little research into its audiences: who they were, how they engaged with and responded to it. This book presents the findings of a major international research project that garnered more than 10,000 responses to an innovative 'qualiquantitative' questionnaire. Among its findings are:

A new way of understanding the place and role of favourite characters in audiences' responses New insights into the role of fantasy in encouraging thinking about our own world An account of two combined emotions — relish and anguish — which structure audiences' reactions to controversial elements in the series

By: Martin Barker, Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood
With: Sarah Ralph, Maria Ruotsalainen
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
ISBN: 9781526152176
ISBN 10: 1526152177
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 30 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 The remarkable phenomenon that is Game of Thrones 2 Generating a ‘richly structured combination of data and discourses’ 3 Distinguishing different kinds of audience 4 Favourite characters, favourite survivors 5 The significance of favourite character choices 6 Winter is coming… 7 Conflicts and controversies 8 Making predictions for an unpredictable world Postscript: ‘If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention’ Index -- .

Martin Barker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University and Visiting Professor at UWE Bristol Clarissa Smith is Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University Feona Attwood is an editor of the journals Sexualities and Porn Studies