Amy Holdsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Holdsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Holdsworth |
| SIGNATURE | HOLDSWORTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0912-8874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The homesick and the sick home
This short article explores the popular property renovation series DIY SOS: The Big Build () to examine what it can tell us about the textual, affective and political modes of nostalgia on television. Inverting the homesick at the heart of nostalgia it considers, instead, the idea of the sick home by examining the ways in which the series represents and remedies lives affected by chronic illness and/or disability. The nostalgic promise of The Big…
Memory, Nostalgia and the Material Heritage of Children’s Television in the Museum
‘The Story of Children’s Television, from 1946 to Now’ was an exhibition co-conceived by the authors and colleagues from the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, UK, running from 2015 to 2017 through a national tour. At the exhibition, objects from children’s television history sat alongside screens showing the programmes to visitors. Our research explores how children’s television culture operates as a site of memory and nostalgia, throug…
Growing up and growing old with television
lives on the (fictional) Scottish Island of Struay. Every night, before she goes to sleep, she shines a torch from her bedroom window across the moonlit bay. From out of the darkness a small light twinkles in response, as one of Katie's grandmothers, 'Grannie Island', shines a light back to the young girl. Adapted from the books by Mairi Hedderwick (first published in 1984), Katie Morag (2013-) is a recent success for CBeebies, the digital presch…
Poetry and/on Television
Half the World Away
This chapter is constructed around a series of examples drawn from cinema, contemporary art and television itself that reveal much about the place of television within the popular imagination. More specifically, each represents a different way in which television’s role in the construction of collective and individual memory can be articulated, explored and imagined. It is not an exhaustive compendium of television’s multiple relationships with m…
Haunting the Memory
‘Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends’ was the tag line for the fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed series Six Feet Under (HBO, 2001–5) — a dark comic drama centred on the lives of the Fisher family and their family-run funeral home in Los Angeles. In the final episode (‘Everyone’s Waiting’, season 5, episode 12), following the death of her oldest brother Nate (Peter Krause), the youngest sibling Claire (Lauren Ambrose) leaves th…
Safe Returns
Derek Kompare’s work on North American television examines what he refers to as the ‘regime of repetition’ — the constant recirculation of the nation’s cultural and individual pasts in the present through the ubiquity of past television (2002, p. 19). His book Rerun Nation (2005) traces the historical development of the rerun on American television, from the industrialisation of culture in the nineteenth century to the emergence of the DVD market…
Television’s Afterlife
The first series of the revived British science-fiction programme Doctor Who features an episode simply entitled ‘Dalek’. Rose (Billie Piper) and the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) encounter a last relic of the Dalek race, the persistent pepper-pot villains believed to have been destroyed in the ‘Time War’, when they are attracted to the underground lair of a billionaire collector of alien artefacts by an anonymous distress signal. 1 It is the op…
Who Do You Think You Are? Memory and Identity in the Family History Documentary
The popularity of family history research as a national pastime has been successfully adopted by British television over the last five years, with Who Do You Think You Are? ( WDYTYA ), produced by Wall to Wall, pioneering the employment of family history and memory as a televisual narrative strategy. The first series aired in autumn 2004 to popular and critical acclaim, becoming one of the highest-rated shows on BBC Two. It was promoted to BBC On…
Television, Memory and Nostalgia
An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of Briti
Northern Views
A report on the work of the Northern Television Studies Research Group (NTVRG), which was founded in 2008 to provide a forum for discussion for members from a variety of backgrounds and institutions across the north of England who are primarily concerned with television. Linked initially by geography, members of the NTVRG are involved in a series of diverse research projects and approaches. Here, two members of the NTVRG—Amy Holdsworth of the Uni…
Television Resurrections
Television Resurrections":Television and Memory Amy Holdsworth (bio) Television has often been characterized by its "transience," "ephemerality," and "forgetability." Even more seriously, it is seen as an "amnesiac," responsible for the "undermining of memory." Television is not only the bad critical object in the academy, but it is a bad memory object as well. In her account of the shifts in theories and concerns with memory from modernity to la…
Television, Memory and Nostalgia
An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of Briti
Television Resurrections
Television Resurrections":Television and Memory Amy Holdsworth (bio) Television has often been characterized by its "transience," "ephemerality," and "forgetability." Even more seriously, it is seen as an "amnesiac," responsible for the "undermining of memory." Television is not only the bad critical object in the academy, but it is a bad memory object as well. In her account of the shifts in theories and concerns with memory from modernity to la…
Television Resurrections
Television Resurrections":Television and Memory Amy Holdsworth (bio) Television has often been characterized by its "transience," "ephemerality," and "forgetability." Even more seriously, it is seen as an "amnesiac," responsible for the "undermining of memory." Television is not only the bad critical object in the academy, but it is a bad memory object as well. In her account of the shifts in theories and concerns with memory from modernity to la…
Northern Views
A report on the work of the Northern Television Studies Research Group (NTVRG), which was founded in 2008 to provide a forum for discussion for members from a variety of backgrounds and institutions across the north of England who are primarily concerned with television. Linked initially by geography, members of the NTVRG are involved in a series of diverse research projects and approaches. Here, two members of the NTVRG—Amy Holdsworth of the Uni…
Half the World Away
This chapter is constructed around a series of examples drawn from cinema, contemporary art and television itself that reveal much about the place of television within the popular imagination. More specifically, each represents a different way in which television’s role in the construction of collective and individual memory can be articulated, explored and imagined. It is not an exhaustive compendium of television’s multiple relationships with m…
Haunting the Memory
‘Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends’ was the tag line for the fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed series Six Feet Under (HBO, 2001–5) — a dark comic drama centred on the lives of the Fisher family and their family-run funeral home in Los Angeles. In the final episode (‘Everyone’s Waiting’, season 5, episode 12), following the death of her oldest brother Nate (Peter Krause), the youngest sibling Claire (Lauren Ambrose) leaves th…
Safe Returns
Derek Kompare’s work on North American television examines what he refers to as the ‘regime of repetition’ — the constant recirculation of the nation’s cultural and individual pasts in the present through the ubiquity of past television (2002, p. 19). His book Rerun Nation (2005) traces the historical development of the rerun on American television, from the industrialisation of culture in the nineteenth century to the emergence of the DVD market…
Television’s Afterlife
The first series of the revived British science-fiction programme Doctor Who features an episode simply entitled ‘Dalek’. Rose (Billie Piper) and the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) encounter a last relic of the Dalek race, the persistent pepper-pot villains believed to have been destroyed in the ‘Time War’, when they are attracted to the underground lair of a billionaire collector of alien artefacts by an anonymous distress signal. 1 It is the op…
Who Do You Think You Are? Memory and Identity in the Family History Documentary
The popularity of family history research as a national pastime has been successfully adopted by British television over the last five years, with Who Do You Think You Are? ( WDYTYA ), produced by Wall to Wall, pioneering the employment of family history and memory as a televisual narrative strategy. The first series aired in autumn 2004 to popular and critical acclaim, becoming one of the highest-rated shows on BBC Two. It was promoted to BBC On…
Television, Memory and Nostalgia
An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of Briti
Poetry and/on Television
Growing up and growing old with television
lives on the (fictional) Scottish Island of Struay. Every night, before she goes to sleep, she shines a torch from her bedroom window across the moonlit bay. From out of the darkness a small light twinkles in response, as one of Katie's grandmothers, 'Grannie Island', shines a light back to the young girl. Adapted from the books by Mairi Hedderwick (first published in 1984), Katie Morag (2013-) is a recent success for CBeebies, the digital presch…
Memory, Nostalgia and the Material Heritage of Children’s Television in the Museum
‘The Story of Children’s Television, from 1946 to Now’ was an exhibition co-conceived by the authors and colleagues from the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, UK, running from 2015 to 2017 through a national tour. At the exhibition, objects from children’s television history sat alongside screens showing the programmes to visitors. Our research explores how children’s television culture operates as a site of memory and nostalgia, throug…
The homesick and the sick home
This short article explores the popular property renovation series DIY SOS: The Big Build () to examine what it can tell us about the textual, affective and political modes of nostalgia on television. Inverting the homesick at the heart of nostalgia it considers, instead, the idea of the sick home by examining the ways in which the series represents and remedies lives affected by chronic illness and/or disability. The nostalgic promise of The Big…
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