On Living with Television

In On Living with Television, Amy Holdsworth examines the characteristics of intimacy, familiarity, repetition, and duration that have come to exemplify the medium of television. Drawing on feminist television studies, queer theory, and disability studies as well as autobiographical life-writing practices, Holdsworth shows how television shapes everyday activities, from eating and sleeping to driving and homemaking. Recounting her own life with television, she offers a sense of the joys and pleasures Disney videos brought to her disabled sister, traces how bedtime television becomes part of a daily routine between child and caregiver, explores her own relationship to binge-eating and binge-viewing, and considers the idea of home through the BBC family drama Last Tango in Halifax. By foregrounding the ways in which television structures our relationships, daily routines, and sense of time, Holdsworth demonstrates how television emerges as a potent vehicle for writing about life.

Author: Amy Holdsworth
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/17/2021
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781478014751
ISBN10: 147801475X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Television | History & Criticism

About the Author
Amy Holdsworth is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, author of Television, Memory, and Nostalgia, and coeditor of Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures.