Emotional Culture and TV Narratives

  1. Alejandro García Martínez 1
  2. Ana Marta González 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Navarra
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    Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02rxc7m23

Liburua:
Emotions in Contemporary TV Series

Argitaletxea: Palgrave MacMillan

ISBN: 9781349849369,  9781137568854

Argitalpen urtea: 2016

Orrialdeak: 13-25

Mota: Liburuko kapitulua

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56885-4_2 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openSarbide irekia editor

Laburpena

The fact that emotions unveil our values as well as our position in the larger social structure makes them an important source of self-knowledge and also knowledge about the world. By producing emotional reactions, fiction may become a privileged site of self-knowledge, both for the artist and for the public, although in different ways. While fiction cannot be taken as a faithful representation of factual reality, it does register emotional reactions to the facts as they are actually conveyed. From this perspective, the kind of fiction created in a given society constitutes relevant material for the sociology of culture.