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; and an account of two combined emotions – relish and anguish – which structure audiences’ reactions to controversial elements in the series. -- .
| ISBN: | 9781526152176 |
| Publication date: | 17th March 2021 |
| Author: | Martin Barker, Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Television Film, TV and Radio industries Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |