This chapter reviews energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication
studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argues that it is dominated by a crisis …

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as
mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making …

In the mid-1950s CP Snow began his campaign against the'two cultures'-the debilitating
divide, as he saw it, between traditional'literary intellectual'culture, and the culture of the …

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry
has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive …

Lately, so-called quality TV series have been extremely successful—both in terms of
audience shares and critical acclaim. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to define the …

As the frequent use of metaphors like friendship or relationship in academic and colloquial
discourse on serial television suggests, long-term narratives seem to add something to the …

Paradoxically, villainous characters in film, literature, and video games can be very popular.
Previous research in the traditions of cognitive media theory and affective disposition theory …

When I began working on the thesis that would eventually become the book Engaging
Characters twenty years ago, 1 the subject of character seemed irredeemably unfashionable …

Empathy is often seen as a virtue: being empathic is equated with being a morally good
person, and empathy is seen as a route to morally praiseworthy insights and actions …

Patrick Colm Hogan and Bradley J. Irish Abstract: This introductory chapter begins by
locating the volume in the “affective turn,” the recent growth of interest in emotion across the …