On Living with Television (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Console-ing Passions
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Amy Holdsworth
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1383-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-1383-4
Barcode:	9781478013839

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