Amy Holdsworth
Senior Lecturer
Department of Culture & Creative Arts
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
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)
Research Interest
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
Publications
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Holdsworth, A. (2013) Poetry and/on television: drinking for England (BBC, 1998). Critical Studies in Television, 8(1), pp. 1-13.
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Holdsworth, A. (2015) Something special: Care, pre-school television and the dis/abled child. Journal of Popular Television, 3(2), pp. 163-178.
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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.
