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This book sets out to foreground a distinctive new ‘psycho-cultural’ approach to popular culture and the media. Its approach has its roots in object relations psychoanalysis and demonstrates the usefulness of this critical framework for developing innovative theories and methods within media and cultural analysis. The collection of essays presented in this anthology have emerged from the Media and the Inner World (MiW) research network which focuses on the place of emotion and therapy in popular culture and the media. The network, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (2009–2013), has held a number of public roundtable discussions, seminars and conferences on various themes. These were framed by a concern to develop a psycho-cultural understanding of the relationships between objects of the media and popular culture and the processes of emotional experience and its role in shaping notions of identity and relatedness in the contemporary age. Many of the chapters in this book first took shape within these discussion spaces.
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Bainbridge, C., Yates, C. (2014). Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. In: Bainbridge, C., Yates, C. (eds) Media and the Inner World: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345547_1
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