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Audience expectations of genre – pleasure in seeing expectations fulfilled (Neale)
Pleasure of intellectual puzzle – enigma codes and cliffhangers attract one-off and loyal fans
Reality – creates audience empathy and identification (U & G)
Escapism – diversion as audiences enter another world/country, heightened by subtitles
Star/character identification and unusual representations – of women, of sexual orientation, of disability – Saga is potentially Aspergers /autistic spectrum disorder
Moral messages – reinforces ideologies but also challenges these
Safety/Catharsis
Voyeurism, scopophilia
Social needs fulfilled – media and social media buzz. Water-cooler effect.
BBC Four/subtitled – has element of “highbrow” viewing which creates a sense of exclusivity
Media Studies - TV
Audience pleasures
Media audiences Page 7
Create a word cloud of the pleasures we might gain from the text. Develop three of these points with examples from the text itself. Check against the list of potential pleasures.