Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Television Scripts 1
5. 1 The irritated spectator: Affective Representation in (Post)millennial Comedy 27
6. 2 The addicted spectator: TV Junkies in Need of an Intervention 57
7. 3 The aborted spectator: Affective Economies of Perversion in Televisual Remix 89
8. 4 The spectator plagued by white guilt: On the Appropriative Intermediality of Quality TV 121
9. 5 The woke spectator: Misrecognizing Discomfort in the Era of “Peak TV” 162
10. Notes 197
11. Bibliography 219
12. Index 239