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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.

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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

Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 17 March 2021
      ISBN-13 9781526152176
      978-1526152176
      ISBN-10 1526152177

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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

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