Emotional Expressionism

E. Deidre Pribram is professor emerita of the Communications Department at Molloy University.

Applying the concept of socioemotionality to recent television series from the Anglophone world, Emotional Expressionism: Television Serialization, the Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality presents readers with an excellent overview of the current research on melodrama and makes a convincing argument for the specific relevance of the melodramatic mode in contemporary 'quality' or 'prestige' television. Interdisciplinary in the best sense of the term, well-researched, and lucidly written, this book constitutes a much needed and important addition to the existing scholarship on public feeling, television culture, affect, and the melodramatic mode. --Katharina Gerund, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg