Watching Dallas again 3: Reassessing Ien Ang's Watching Dallas

Toon Heesakkers; Ward van Hoof; Anne Jager; Amanda Gilroy

doi:10.3983/twc.2015.0649

Transformative Works and Cultures (Jun 2015)

Watching Dallas again 3: Reassessing Ien Ang's Watching Dallas

Toon Heesakkers,
Ward van Hoof,
Anne Jager,
Amanda Gilroy

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Toon Heesakkers: University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Ward van Hoof: University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Anne Jager: University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Amanda Gilroy: University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0649
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 19

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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.

Published in Transformative Works and Cultures

ISSN: 1941-2258 (Online)
Publisher: Organization for Transformative Works
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media
Website: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/

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