Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing

Jo Whitehouse-Hart is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published in the areas of television and psychoanalysis, audience research, and the creative industries using psychoanalytic and psychosocial perspectives and methods.

• Introduction: Puzzling Viewing 1. Favourites, TV and Home: Psychosocial Perspectives 2. Psychosocial Methods and Audience Research 3. Spending Too Much Time Watching TV? 4. Favourite Things: Evocative Objects in the Life of a Castaway 5. Mothers, Sons, Siblings and The Imaginative World of Working Class Women's Viewing 6. Risky Viewing and Risky Method? 7. Conclusion: Viewing is Psychosocial