On Living with Television
(Part of the Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power Series)
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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. 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:147801475X
ISBN13:9781478014751
Release Date:December 2021
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.58 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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