Open AccessWatching "Dallas" again 3: Reassessing Ien Ang's "Watching Dallas"
Author(s) -
Toon Heesakkers,
Ward Van Hoof,
Anne Jäger,
Amanda Gilroy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2015.0649
Subject(s) - irony , art , visual arts , media studies , sociology , literature
This audience reception project performs an audience study of the first season of the new Dallas (2012–14). It draws on Ien Ang's Watching Dallas ([1982] 1985) to analyze the production of irony and nostalgia. We observe that the blend of ironic viewing and nostalgia results in a more ironic, reflective nostalgia, in contrast to a more serious restorative type of nostalgia
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