Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Profile of the Emotions Industry
Mira Moshe
Authors List
Biographical Note
Mira Moshe
Section I: The Emotions Industry — The Construction of a Romantic Production Line
Chapter 1 – Cellular Branding: The Search for Love via the Emotions Industry (pp. 3-24)
Mira Moshe (Ariel University, Israel)
Chapter 2 – Romance Tourism: The Ultimate Emotions Industry (pp. 25-42)
Julia Meszaros (Florida International University, FL, US)
Chapter 3 – What‘s the Fighting All About? A Comparison of Reasons for Romantic Conflicts on Television Programs and in the Real World (pp. 43-58)
Amir Hetsroni and Abira Reizer (Ariel University, Israel)
Section II: The Emotions Industry —From Production to Consumption of Emotional Content
Chapter 4 – The Journalism of Astonishment‖: Engaging the Audience Emotionally through Amateur Visuals (pp. 61-78)
Mervi Pantti (Department of Social Research, Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Chapter 5 – The Emotions Industry in Italy: You‘ve Got Mail (pp. 79-92)
Mariolina Graziosi (University of Milan, Italy)
Chapter 6 – Eliciting ―Kosher Emotions‖ in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women‘s Film (pp. 93-114)
Matan Aharoni (Department of Communications, University of Haifa, Israel)
Section III: The Emotions Industry —Media Consumers’ Confrontation with Fear and Death
Chapter 7 – Flirting with Death: Writing As a Mode of Being-in-the-World on an On-Line Suicide Support Forum (pp. 117-134)
Shirly Bar-Lev (School of Engineering, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel)
Chapter 8 – I Was Really Scared‖: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Reconstructing Children‘s Fearful Viewing Experiences (pp. 135-156)
Dafna Lemish and Michal Alon-Tirosh (College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, IL, US and others)
Section IV: The Emotions Industry —The Politics of Emotions
Chapter 9 – Spectacles for Everyone: Emotions and Politics in Argentina, 2010-2013 (pp. 159-178)
Adrián Scribano and Mira Moshe (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina and Ariel University, Israel)
Chapter 10 – The Emotions Industry in Online Romanian Politics: Selling Leadership and Trust during the 2012 Parliamentary Campaign (pp. 179-196)
Florenta Toader (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania)
Section V: The Emotions Industry — Fashion and Fashionable Self-Exposure
Chapter 11 – The Emotions Industry Celebrities and Self-Confession As a Marketing Strategy (pp. 199-218)
Mira Moshe (Ariel University, Israel)
Chapter 12 – The Emotions Industry: Emotions in Fame (pp. 219-232)
Samita Nandy (Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS), Canada)
Chapter 13 – Simmel‘s Theory of Fashion as a Hypothesis of Affective Capitalism (pp. 233-248)
Juhana Venäläinen (University of Eastern Finland, School of Humanities, Finland)
Index