Discourses of Care - Media Practices and Cultures

List of contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION
‘Discourses of care and the media: an approach and an alliance’
Amy Holdsworth, Karen Lury & Hannah Tweed, University of Glasgow, UK

SECTION ONE: Media and end of life care
1. ‘Signs of Care: assisted suicide on television’ (Helen Wheatley, University of Warwick, UK)
2. ‘Gestures of care in Briony Campbell’s The Dad Project’ (Agnese Sile, University of Aberdeen, UK)
3. Paul Sutton, ‘Care, illness and television spectatorship’ (Paul Sutton, University of Roehampton, UK)

SECTION TWO: Technology, care and facilitation
4. ‘Are digital platforms and touchscreen devices effective caretakers? The touch-and-go of users with visual impairments’ (Anna Piccoli, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
5. ‘Making Television Accessible with Audio Description’ (Kerr Castle, University of Glasgow, UK)
6. ‘Controversies of Care: Technology, Caregivers, and Autiebiography (Hannah Tweed, University of Glasgow, UK)

SECTION THREE: Education, media and care
7. ‘Performances of Care: Film, Re-education and Shell-shock’ (Robert Hemmings, University of Leeds, UK)
8. ‘Care-full Cinema: Perspectives on care-relationships in French educational film, 1950s-1990s’ (Christian Bonah & Joel Danet, University of Stroasburg, France)
9. ‘Assessing changes to the welfare state: An investigation into the effects of regional media on local services and recipients of care in 1980s North East England’ (Ben Lamb, Teesside University, UK)

SECTION FOUR: Bad care
10. ‘“Failings in the duty of care”: Mediated discourses on “children at risk”’ (Maggie Sweeney, University of the West of Scotland, UK)
11. ‘Care and cultures of television news production: the case of BBC Newsnight’ (Rowan Aust, Royal Holloway University of London, UK)

SECTION FIVE: Care and collaboration: reflections on caregiving, receiving and the creative process
12. ‘B is for…. Body’ (Andrew Kötting, University of the Creative Arts at Canterbury, UK)
13. ‘Care as practice and provocation: A response to Andrew Kötting’ (Amy Holdsworth,‘University of Glasgow, UK)

Index

About the author

Amy Holdsworth is a senior lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of Television, Memory and Nostalgia (2011) and has published in Cinema Journal, Screen, Critical Studies in Television, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Journal of Popular Television. She is on the editorial advisory board for Screen and Memory Studies and regularly reviews for a wide range of journals and publishers.Karen Lury is Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely in film and television studies, with a particular focus on the representation of the child in film and in relation to children’s media more generally. Her books include Interpreting Television (Bloomsbury, 2005) and The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales (2010). Her work on the child in film was developed through her (2010-2014) AHRC funded project ‘Children and Amateur Media in Scotland’. Her most recent publication, an anthology - co-edited with Michael Lawrence - The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016) includes an essay based on research from this project. She is a longstanding editor of the international film and television studies journal, Screen.Hannah Tweed is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, UK. Hannah was a research assistant on a Wellcome Trust funded project to encourage collaboration within the medical humanities and disability studies at Glasgow, building the Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network Website (www.medical-humanities.glasgow.ac.uk/). She also co-founded and runs the Disability Studies Network (www.disabilitystudiesnetwork.gla.ac.uk/).

Summary

Bringing together scholars from film and television studies, media and cultural studies, literary studies, medical humanities, and disability studies, Discourses of Care collectively examines how the analysis of media texts and practices can contribute to scholarship on and understandings of health and social care, and how existing research focusing on the ethics of care can inform our understanding of media.

Featuring a critical introductory essay and 13 specially commissioned original chapters, this is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media and the concept and practice of care and caregiving. Contributors consider the representation of care and caregiving through a range of forms and practices – the television documentary, photography, film, non-theatrical cinema, tabloid media, autobiography, and public service broadcasting - and engage with the labour, as well as the practical and ethical dimensions of media production. Together, they offer an original and wide ranging exploration of the various ways in which media forms represent, articulate and operate within caring relationships and practices of care; whether this is between individuals, communities as well as audiences and institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Holdsworth, Karen Lury, Hannah Tweed
• Assisted by: Amy Holdsworth (Editor), Karen Lury (Editor), Hannah Tweed (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2021
• EAN: 9781501389849
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-8984-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, MEDICAL / Caregiving, Disability: social aspects, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism