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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Still Moments in Contemporary Dramas — Dr Michael Samuel
Chapter 2. Netflix’s Arcane and Trauma — Laura Cesa and Hubbiah Rafaqat
Chapter 3. “By what right does the wolf judge the lion?”: Using televisual moments to create empathy in Game of Thrones (2011-9) — Louise Coopey
Chapter 4. Cracked Landscapes on Beautiful Islands: How Empathy Addresses the Social Fissures in Trapped (Ófærð) and Hierro — Dr Jesse Barker
Chapter 5. Ted Lasso’s Threat to Toxic Masculinity — Professor Scott F. Stoddart
Chapter 6. Death, Controversy and Empathy Deficit in Squid Game — Dr Bethan Michael-Fox
Chapter 7. Beyond the Personal: History, Culture and Empathy in Mystery Road — Dr Matthew Cipa
Chapter 8. Empathy and the Miniseries and Docuseries formats: The Case of the Opioid Epidemic Drama — Dr Jan Beneš
Chapter 9. Atypical and Empathy — Professor Nigel Morris
Chapter 10. Ghost in the Machine: Grief, Catharsis and Television Memory in WandaVision — Dr Leanne Weston
Chapter 11. Petty Fights and Futile Disputes: Neighbour Quarrels in Dutch Reality TV — Dr Josette Wolthuis
Chapter 12. Online Fandom’s Empathetic Response to Death Anxieties and the Afterlife in Sherlock — Professor John Murray
Chapter 13. Who do you watch with?: The effect of social interaction on empathy and television — Dr Kate Ngai
Chapter 14. The Crown and Digital Commemorative Culture — Esther Wilson
Chapter 15. Sensation Training in Kamen Rider Saber: Affective empathy in Japanese children's television — Sophia Staite and Dr Ruth Barratt-Peacock
Chapter 16. Constructing Empathic Narratives: Empathy, Identification and Gender in Euphoria’s Marketing and Online Paratexts — Dr Theresa Trimmel
Chapter 17. Squid Game: Universal Narratives and Affective Transculturation — Dr B. G.-Stolz
