Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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/).