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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: emotion, engagements and orientation -- Introduction: why study television? -- Part One: Theoretical back -- 1. 'Desperately Seeking the Audience': models of audience recept -- 2. Personal Meanings, Fandom and Sitting Too Close to the Television -- 3. Global Meanings and Trans-cultural Understandings of Dallas -- 4. Theorising Emotion and Affect: feminist engagements -- 5. Theorising Emotion in Film and Television -- Part Two: Case studies -- 6. A Sentimental Journey: writing emotion in television -- 7. 'There's No Place Like Home': emotional exposure, excess and empathy on TV -- 8. Emotional Rescue: The Sopranos (HBO 1999- 2007), ER (NBC 1994-) and State of Play (BBC1 2003) -- 9. Feminising Television: the Mother Role in Six Feet Under (HBO 2001-6) and Brothers & Sisters (ABC 2006-) -- 10. Researching Emotion in Television: a small-scale case study of emotion in the UK/Irish soap industry -- Bibliography -- Index

This article considers how the concept of desire can be theorized in light of recent work on emotion and affect. In so doing, it questions what desire does and how desire can be theorized, particularly within cinema. Instead of arguing that we must move away from a psychoanalytic interpretation of desire, I ask how this approach can be revitalized and reconsidered through work on affect. This article also highlights the way in which Lacanian and Deleuzian models of desire are constantly set in opposition to each other; in so doing, it seeks to move beyond this impasse and gesture towards alternative ways of theorizing desire. One of the central issues foregrounded within psychoanalytic theory is the process of remembering and forgetting: the method through which the subject can 'let go' and move forward. This relationship is figured primarily in terms of the discourse between self and other. Marguerite Duras' work questions this process of 'letting go' and offers an alternative conceptualization of desire through her use of melancholia. Beyond an intrinsic interest in her work, because Duras has been admired by psychoanalytic, feminist and Deleuzian scholars, her films present an opportunity to rethink a theorization of desire in light of competing interpretations. In discussing melancholia in terms of Duras' work, this paper also considers the extent to which her use of Hiroshima as a backdrop to the affair presented in the film colonizes desire and its transformative potential.

Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet takes stock of where we are emotionally with regards to the Internet in social and cultural terms. Online users are switching between personal, national, international and global modes of being and feeling that shape private and public experiences. Drawing upon the well-established discipline of media studies, the book travels theoretically through, across, in and between examples of traditional media as they merge and emerge online. Garde-Hansen and Gorton explore how we feel about, and how we feel in, our online media ecology in the context of global media platforms.