Dr Amy Holdsworth

  • Senior Lecturer (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)

Research interests

Office hours: Wednesday 2-4pm

Research Interests

My research predominantly focuses on  television theory and criticism but also engages with other interdisciplinary areas, including memory studies, disability studies and childhood studies. My work on the relationship between television, memory and nostalgia (which included research on serial drama, the family history documentary, nostalgia television, television archives and media museums) was published as a monograph by Palgrave in 2011. Alongside a continued interest in these areas  I am currently working on a series of related projects and have specific interests in the following topics:

  • Television and discourses of care
  • Childhood, screen media and (inter)generational memory and nostalgia
  • Screen media, childhood studies and disability studies
  • The representation of dementia in television and film
  • Television and autobiography

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)

Supervision

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 or on childhood and children’s media.

  • Brennan, Mhairi
    Archiving the Referendum: The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the BBC Scotland Television Archive
  • Castle, Kerr
    Comfort TV - theorising the everyday use of TV as an apparatus for therapeutic reward, the restoration of identity, and other affects.
  • Gabriel, Robert
    Socio-Economic Ideology in Contemporary ‘Tween’ Television Programming
  • Jenkins, Abigail
    The Big Picture: Fat Women in Film and Television

Teaching

  • Looking, Listening, 'Reading'
  • Key Moments in the Development of Cinema and Television
  • Television Analysis
  • Contemporary Television Drama
  • Television, Memory and the Archive
  • Children's Television

Additional Information

Administration

  • Level 1 convenor
  • Dissertations convenor

External Responsibilities

  • Chair of Northern Television Studies Research Group
  • Editorial advisory board member for Screen (OUP) and Memory Studies (Sage)

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2013 | 2011 | 2010 | 2008 | 2006
Number of items: 12.

2017

Aust, R. and Holdsworth, A. (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, A. and Lury, K. (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, A. and Holdsworth, A. (2015) Media archaeology of/in the Museum. In: Henning, M. (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. (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. (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. (2011) (Inter)national television formats: the transatlantic translations of Who Do You Think You Are? Media Education Journal, 49, pp. 29-31.

Holdsworth, A. (2011) Television, Memory and Nostalgia. Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230245983

2010

Holdsworth, A. (2010) Televisual memory. Screen, 51(2), pp. 129-142. (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, pp. 234-247. 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. (doi:10.1080/14714780903512098)

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)

This list was generated on Thu May 23 01:25:31 2019 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections
Number of items: 12.

Articles

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

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

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. (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, A. (2011) Television, Memory and Nostalgia. Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230245983

Book Sections

Aust, R. and Holdsworth, A. (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, A. and Holdsworth, A. (2015) Media archaeology of/in the Museum. In: Henning, M. (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

This list was generated on Thu May 23 01:25:31 2019 BST.


Amy Holdsworth

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