Discourses of Care

Amy Holdsworth is a senior lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.Karen Lury is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.Hannah Tweed is a Senior Policy Officer at the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.

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.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTION‘Discourses of care and the media: an approach and an alliance’ Amy Holdsworth, Karen Lury & Hannah Tweed, University of Glasgow, UKSECTION ONE: Media and end of life care 1. ‘Signs of Care: assisted suicide on television’ (Helen Wheatley, University of Warwick, UK)2. ‘Gestures of care in Briony Campbell’s The Dad Project’ (Agnese Sile, University of Aberdeen, UK)3. Paul Sutton, ‘Care, illness and television spectatorship’ (Paul Sutton, University of Roehampton, UK) SECTION TWO: Technology, care and facilitation 4. ‘Are digital platforms and touchscreen devices effective caretakers? The touch-and-go of users with visual impairments’ (Anna Piccoli, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)5. ‘Making Television Accessible with Audio Description’ (Kerr Castle, University of Glasgow, UK)6. ‘Controversies of Care: Technology, Caregivers, and Autiebiography (Hannah Tweed, University of Glasgow, UK)SECTION THREE: Education, media and care 7. ‘Performances of Care: Film, Re-education and Shell-shock’ (Robert Hemmings, University of Leeds, UK)8. ‘Care-full Cinema: Perspectives on care-relationships in French educational film, 1950s-1990s’ (Christian Bonah & Joel Danet, University of Stroasburg, France)9. ‘Assessing changes to the welfare state: An investigation into the effects of regional media on local services and recipients of care in 1980s North East England’ (Ben Lamb, Teesside University, UK)SECTION FOUR: Bad care10. ‘“Failings in the duty of care”: Mediated discourses on “children at risk”’ (Maggie Sweeney, University of the West of Scotland, UK) 11. ‘Care and cultures of television news production: the case of BBC Newsnight’ (Rowan Aust, Royal Holloway University of London, UK)SECTION FIVE: Care and collaboration: reflections on caregiving, receiving and the creative process 12. ‘B is for…. Body’ (Andrew Kötting, University of the Creative Arts at Canterbury, UK) 13. ‘Care as practice and provocation: A response to Andrew Kötting’ (Amy Holdsworth,‘University of Glasgow, UK)Index