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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. To (Not) Grow Up with Television 31
2. Bedtime Stories 49
3. TV Dinners 77
4. Homecomings and Goings 107
5. Epilogue: (Un)pause 139
Notes147
Bibliography 163
Index 175
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
