Audience pleasures

Create a word cloud of the pleasures we might gain from the text. Develop three of these points with examples from the text itself. Check against the list of potential pleasures.

Audience expectations of genre – pleasure in seeing expectations fulfilled (Neale)
Pleasure of intellectual puzzle – enigma codes
Reality – creates audience empathy and identification (U & G)
Escapism – diversion
Nostalgia
Star/character identification
Moral messages – reinforces dominant ideologies
Safety
Catharsis
Narrative closure within episode format attracts both one-off and loyal fans
Voyeurism, scopophilia

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