Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures

Review “Discourses of Care is an innovative collection that explores how media both represents and enacts (or sometimes fails to enact) care. Essays on documentary, education films, photography, life writing, new media and news media detail the representation, circulation, production and reception of care, revealing productive affinities between care theory and media studies. This compelling foray into the entanglement of media and care is an important contribution to care studies and the medical humanities more broadly.” ―Amelia DeFalco, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, University of Leeds, UK Product Description Bringing together scholars from film and television studies, media and cultural studies, literary studies, medical humanities, and disability studies, Discourses of Care collectively examines how the analysis of media texts and practices can contribute to scholarship on and understandings of health and social care, and how existing research focusing on the ethics of care can inform our understanding of media.Featuring a critical introductory essay and 13 specially commissioned original chapters, this is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media and the concept and practice of care and caregiving. Contributors consider the representation of care and caregiving through a range of forms and practices – the television documentary, photography, film, non-theatrical cinema, tabloid media, autobiography, and public service broadcasting - and engage with the labour, as well as the practical and ethical dimensions of media production. Together, they offer an original and wide ranging exploration of the various ways in which media forms represent, articulate and operate within caring relationships and practices of care; whether this is between individuals, communities as well as audiences and institutions. About the Author Amy Holdsworth is a senior lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of Television, Memory and Nostalgia (2011) and has published in Cinema Journal, Screen, Critical Studies in Television, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Journal of Popular Television. She is on the editorial advisory board for Screen and Memory Studies and regularly reviews for a wide range of journals and publishers.Karen Lury is Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely in film and television studies, with a particular focus on the representation of the child in film and in relation to children's media more generally. Her books include Interpreting Television (Bloomsbury, 2005) and The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales (2010). Her work on the child in film was developed through her (2010-2014) AHRC funded project 'Children and Amateur Media in Scotland'. Her most recent publication, an anthology - co-edited with Michael Lawrence - The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016) includes an essay based on research from this project. She is a longstanding editor of the international film and television studies journal, Screen.Hannah Tweed is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, UK. Hannah was a research assistant on a Wellcome Trust funded project to encourage collaboration within the medical humanities and disability studies at Glasgow, building the Glasgow University Medical Humanities Network Website (www.medical-humanities.glasgow.ac.uk/). She also co-founded and runs the Disability Studies Network (www.disabilitystudiesnetwork.gla.ac.uk/).