School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Amy Holdsworth

Amy Holdsworth
  • Lecturer in Film & Television Studies (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

telephone: 01413305625
email: Amy.Holdsworth@glasgow.ac.uk


Office hours: Thursday 1-3pm

Research Interests

My research interests lie primarily in the field of television theory, history and criticism. I am particularly interested in the relationship between television, memory and nostalgia and a monograph on this subject was recently published by Palgrave. This work includes research on television drama, the family history documentary, nostalgia television, television archives and media museums. I am currently researching the history and aesthetics of poetry on television and film and developing research projects on generational memory and audio-visual culture and technology, and memories of children’s television in the UK. Other and related research interests include regional television and representations of the ‘North’ and women and/in television comedy.

Biography

  • 2009- : Lecturer in Film and Television Studies (University of Glasgow)
  • 2008-9: Senior Lecturer in Television Studies (Leeds Metropolitan University)
  • 2004-7: PhD Film and Television Studies (University of Warwick)
  • 2002-3: MA Cultural Studies (University of Leeds)
  • 1998-2001: BA (hons)  Film and Literature (University of Warwick)
Jump to: 2011 | 2010 | 2008 | 2006
Number of items: 7.

2011

Holdsworth, A. (2011) (Inter)national television formats: the transatlantic translations of Who Do You Think You Are? Media Education Journal, 49 . pp. 29-31. ISSN 0268-1951

Holdsworth, A. (2011) Television, Memory and Nostalgia. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230245983

2010

Holdsworth, A. (2010) Televisual memory. Screen, 51 (2). pp. 129-142. ISSN 0036-9543 (doi:10.1093/screen/hjq007)

Holdsworth, A. (2010) Who do you think you are? Family history and memory on British television. In: Bell, E. and Gray, A. (eds.) Televising History : Mediating the Past in Postwar Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230222083

Holdsworth, A., and Sadler, B. (2010) Northern Views: A report from the Northern Television Studies Research Group. Visual Culture in Britain, 11 (1). pp. 137-141. ISSN 1471-4787 (doi:10.1080/14714780903512098)

2008

Holdsworth, A. (2008) "Television resurrections": television and memory. Cinema Journal, 47 (3). pp. 137-144. ISSN 0009-7101

2006

Holdsworth, A. (2006) 'Slow television' and Stephen Poliakoff's Shooting the past. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 3 (1). pp. 128-133. ISSN 1743-4521 (doi:10.3366/JBCTV.2006.3.1.128)

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I welcome applications from new PhD students interested in television theory, history and criticism. I am also interested in supervising students interested in memory, nostalgia, heritage and audio-visual texts and cultures.

Current PhD students

  • Stuart Bell: ‘Endings in/on television’
  • Kenneth Martin Forbes: 'Glasgow as a live music city: an analysis of the 'legendary' Apollo venue and its audience'
  • Reading the Screen: Television
  • Television Analysis
  • Contemporary Television Drama
  • Television, Memory and the Archive

Administration

  • Level 1 Convenor

External Responsibilities

  • Chair of Northern Television Studies Research Group

Forthcoming Publications

  • Television, Memory and Nostalgia (Forthcoming Sept 2011, Palgrave)