Discourses of care : media practices and cultures / edited by Amy Holdsworth, Karen Lury and Hannah Tweed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holdsworth, Amy, 1979- editor.

Lury, Karen, editor.

Tweed, Hannah C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine in motion pictures.

Medical care--In motion pictures.

Medical care.

Medicine in the Arts.

Caregivers.

Self Care.

Mass Media.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine in the Arts.

Caregivers.

Self Care.

Mass Media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"This critical anthology, featuring a joint authored critical introductory essay and 15 specially commissioned original essays, is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media (films, television documentaries and non-theatrical cinema) in relation to the concept and practice of care and caregiving"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Signs of Care : assisted suicide on television / Helen Wheatley

Gestures of care in Briony Campbell's The Dad Project / Agnese Sile

Care, illness and television spectatorship / Paul Sutton

Are digital platforms and touchscreen devices effective caretakers? The touch-and-go of users with visual impairments / Anna Piccoli

Making Television Accessible with Audio Description / Kerr Castle

Controversies of Care : Technology, Caregivers, and Autiebiography / Hannah Tweed

Performances of Care : Film, Re-education and Shell-shock / Robert Hemmings

Care-full Cinema: Perspectives on care-relationships in French educational film, 1950s-1990s / Christian Bonah & Joel Danet

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

Failings in the duty of care : Mediated discourses on "children at risk" / Maggie Sweeney

Care and cultures of television news production : the case of BBC Newsnight / Rowan Aust

B is for.... Body / Andrew Kötting

Care as practice and provocation : A response to Andrew Kötting / Amy Holdsworth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501342837

1501342835

9781501342851

1501342851

9781501342844

1501342843

OCLC:

1154474236