On living with television / Amy Holdsworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holdsworth, Amy, 1979- author.

Series:

Console-ing passions

Console-ing passions television and cultural power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television--Social aspects.

Television.

Television--Psychological aspects.

Feminist television criticism.

Queer theory.

Disability studies.

Physical Description:

x, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In On Living with Television, Amy Holdsworth examines the characteristics of intimacy, familiarity, repetition, and duration that have come to exemplify the medium. 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 through which to write about life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

To (not) grow up with television

Bedtime stories

TV dinners

Homecomings and goings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Holdsworth, Amy, 1979- On living with television.

ISBN:

9781478013839

1478013834

9781478014751

147801475X

OCLC:

1241163635