Professor Amy Holdsworth

  • Professor of Television, Film and Cultural Studies (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

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

R327, Gilmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874

Research interests

 

Research Interests

My research focuses on television and domestic media as interdisciplinary objects of inquiry, and my work has drawn upon theoretical traditions and frameworks within memory studies, childhood studies and disability studies.

I am currently working on a series of related projects and have specific interests in the following topics:

  • The disabled child in film and television
  • Learning disabilities and screen media
  • Television, autobiography and autoethnography
  • Television and discourses of care

 

Biography

  • 2009- : Senior 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)

Publications

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2021

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2021) On Living with Television. Duke University Press: Durham, NC. ISBN 9781478014751

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2021) The homesick and the sick home. Journal of Popular Television, 9(3), pp. 293-299. (doi: 10.1386/jptv_00057_1)

2020

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874, Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 and Tweed, Hannah (Eds.) (2020) Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures. Bloomsbury Academic: New York. ISBN 9781501342820

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2020) Care as practice and provocation: a response to Andrew Kötting. In: Holdsworth, Amy, Lury, Karen and Tweed, Hannah (eds.) Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures. Bloomsbury Academic: New York, pp. 245-252. ISBN 9781501342820

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874, Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 and Tweed, Hannah (2020) Discourses of care and the media: an approach and an alliance. In: Holdsworth, Amy, Lury, Karen and Tweed, Hannah (eds.) Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures. Bloomsbury Academic: New York, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781501342820

2019

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874, Moseley, Rachel and Wheatley, Helen (2019) Memory, nostalgia and the material heritage of children’s television in the museum. VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture, 8(15), pp. 111-122. (doi: 10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc168)

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 and Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 (2019) Tears, tantrums and television performance. In: Walters, James and Donaldson, Lucy Fife (eds.) Television Performance. Macmillan International, pp. 135-151. ISBN 9781137608208

2017

Aust, Rowan and Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2017) The BBC archive post-Jimmy Savile: irreparable damage or recoverable ground? In: Kay, J.B., Mahoney, C. and Shaw, C. (eds.) The Past in Visual Culture Essays on Memory, Nostalgia and the Media. MacFarland, pp. 170-184. ISBN 9781476663807

2016

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 and Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 (2016) Growing up and growing old with television: peripheral viewers and the centrality of care. Screen, 57(2), pp. 184-196. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjw019)

2015

Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2015) Media archaeology of/in the Museum. In: Henning, Michelle (ed.) Museum Media. Series: The international handbooks of museum studies (3). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 23-42. ISBN 9781405198509 (doi: 10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms302)

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2015) Something special: Care, pre-school television and the dis/abled child. Journal of Popular Television, 3(2), pp. 163-178. (doi: 10.1386/jptv.3.2.163_1)

2013

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2013) Poetry and/on television: drinking for England (BBC, 1998). Critical Studies in Television, 8(1), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.7227/CST.8.1.3)

2011

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2011) (Inter)national television formats: the transatlantic translations of Who Do You Think You Are? Media Education Journal, 49, pp. 29-31.

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2011) Television, Memory and Nostalgia. Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230245983

2010

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2010) Televisual memory. Screen, 51(2), pp. 129-142. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjq007)

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 and Sadler, B. (2010) Northern Views: A report from the Northern Television Studies Research Group. Visual Culture in Britain, 11(1), pp. 137-141. (doi: 10.1080/14714780903512098)

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, pp. 234-247. ISBN 9780230222083

2008

Holdsworth, A. (2008) "Television resurrections": television and memory. Cinema Journal, 47(3), pp. 137-144. (doi: 10.1353/cj.0.0017)

2006

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

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Number of items: 19.

Articles

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2021) The homesick and the sick home. Journal of Popular Television, 9(3), pp. 293-299. (doi: 10.1386/jptv_00057_1)

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874, Moseley, Rachel and Wheatley, Helen (2019) Memory, nostalgia and the material heritage of children’s television in the museum. VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture, 8(15), pp. 111-122. (doi: 10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc168)

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 and Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 (2016) Growing up and growing old with television: peripheral viewers and the centrality of care. Screen, 57(2), pp. 184-196. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjw019)

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2015) Something special: Care, pre-school television and the dis/abled child. Journal of Popular Television, 3(2), pp. 163-178. (doi: 10.1386/jptv.3.2.163_1)

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2013) Poetry and/on television: drinking for England (BBC, 1998). Critical Studies in Television, 8(1), pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.7227/CST.8.1.3)

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2011) (Inter)national television formats: the transatlantic translations of Who Do You Think You Are? Media Education Journal, 49, pp. 29-31.

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2010) Televisual memory. Screen, 51(2), pp. 129-142. (doi: 10.1093/screen/hjq007)

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 and Sadler, B. (2010) Northern Views: A report from the Northern Television Studies Research Group. Visual Culture in Britain, 11(1), pp. 137-141. (doi: 10.1080/14714780903512098)

Holdsworth, A. (2008) "Television resurrections": television and memory. Cinema Journal, 47(3), pp. 137-144. (doi: 10.1353/cj.0.0017)

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

Books

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2021) On Living with Television. Duke University Press: Durham, NC. ISBN 9781478014751

Holdsworth, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2011) Television, Memory and Nostalgia. Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230245983

Book Sections

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2020) Care as practice and provocation: a response to Andrew Kötting. In: Holdsworth, Amy, Lury, Karen and Tweed, Hannah (eds.) Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures. Bloomsbury Academic: New York, pp. 245-252. ISBN 9781501342820

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874, Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 and Tweed, Hannah (2020) Discourses of care and the media: an approach and an alliance. In: Holdsworth, Amy, Lury, Karen and Tweed, Hannah (eds.) Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures. Bloomsbury Academic: New York, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781501342820

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 and Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 (2019) Tears, tantrums and television performance. In: Walters, James and Donaldson, Lucy Fife (eds.) Television Performance. Macmillan International, pp. 135-151. ISBN 9781137608208

Aust, Rowan and Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2017) The BBC archive post-Jimmy Savile: irreparable damage or recoverable ground? In: Kay, J.B., Mahoney, C. and Shaw, C. (eds.) The Past in Visual Culture Essays on Memory, Nostalgia and the Media. MacFarland, pp. 170-184. ISBN 9781476663807

Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874 (2015) Media archaeology of/in the Museum. In: Henning, Michelle (ed.) Museum Media. Series: The international handbooks of museum studies (3). Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 23-42. ISBN 9781405198509 (doi: 10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms302)

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, pp. 234-247. ISBN 9780230222083

Edited Books

Holdsworth, Amy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-8874, Lury, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6965 and Tweed, Hannah (Eds.) (2020) Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures. Bloomsbury Academic: New York. ISBN 9781501342820

This list was generated on Fri Jun 20 14:17:56 2025 BST.

Supervision

I welcome applications from new PhD students interested in television theory and criticism. I am also interested in supervising students interested in disability, film and/or television, and children's media.

  • Floyd, Matthew
    How the Industry Speaks to Itself: Constructing a History of Television (1976 – present day) through the MacTaggart Lectures and the Edinburgh International TV Festival Archive
  • Gurney, Joanne
    Choral Culture in Early Twentieth Century Scotland: Music, Geopolitics, Community
  • Oweis, Zein Almaha Rami Wahdan
    How are people with disabilities perceived in traditional mainstream Jordanian media vs. Facebook?

Past projects

  • Archiving the Referendum: BBC Scotland’s Television Archive and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
  • Comfort TV: considering everyday television use as a mode of self-care
  • Engaging television characters: a cognitive approach to contemporary television
  • 'Don't stop': re-thinking the function of endings in narrative television
  • Subtitling Chinese cinema: a case study of Zhang Yimou’s films
  • You had to be there? Reflections on the 'legendary' status of the Glasgow Apollo theatre (1973-85)

 

Teaching

  • Looking, Listening, 'Reading' (Level 1)
  • Television Analysis (Honours)
  • Genders (Honours)
  • Advanced Topics in Television Studies (PGT)

Additional information

Administration

  • Head of Film and Television Studies
  • School Disability Officer

External Responsibilities

  • Editorial advisory board member for Screen (OUP) and Memory Studies (Sage)
  • Advisory board member of Centre for Screen Cultures, Universit of St Andrews
  • Series editor 'TV and....' (EUP)
  • Series editor ‘Edinburgh Studies in Television’ (EUP)
  • Chair of Northern Television Studies Research Group

Dr Amy Holdsworth