Bloomsbury Remembering British Television: Audience, Archive and Industry

About the Author KRISTYN GORTON is Associate Professor in Television Studies in the Department of Theatre, Film & Television at the University of York. She is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Portrayal of Desire in Twentieth-Century Fiction (2006), Theorising Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film (2008) and Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion (2009). She is co-author with Joanne Garde-Hansen of Emotion Online: Theorising Affect on the Internet, forthcoming with Palgrave. She has written numerous articles on television and film for journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Studies in European Cinema and the Journal of British Film and Television. JOANNE GARDE-HANSEN is Associate Professor in Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Warwick. She is co-editor of Save As…Digital Memories (2009) with Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading, author of Media and Memory (2011), co-editor of Geography and Memory (2012) with Owain Jones and co-author with Kristyn Gorton of Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet, forthcoming with Palgrave. She has led a number of funded research projects on media, memory and community (Flood Memories, Dennis Potter Heritage project, Hidden Lives project).JOANNE GARDE-HANSEN is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Warwick, UK. She is co-editor of Save As…Digital Memories (2009) with Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading, author of Media and Memory (2011), co-editor of Geography and Memory (2012) with Owain Jones and co-author with Kristyn Gorton of Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet.Joanne Garde-Hansen is Reader in Culture, Media and Communication in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick. A media specialist with a particular interest in water and its depiction in the media, Garde-Hansen regularly collaborates with geographers, water scientists and computer scientists on the relationship between culture and water, rivers, flooding and drought. She has been co-investigator on the ESRC funded Sustainable Flood Memories and Digital Stories of Flooding projects and is co-investigator on the National Environmental Research Council project Developing a Drought Narrative Resource. Product Description This original book asks how, in an age of convergence, when 'television' no longer means a box in the corner of the living room that we sit and watch together, do we remember television of the past? How do we gather and archive our memories? Kristyn Gordon and Joanne Garde-Hansen explore these questions through first person interviews with tv producers, curators and archivists, and case studies of popular television series and fan communities such as 'Cold Feet' and 'Doctor Who'. Their discussion takes in museum exhibitions, popular televison nostalgia programming and 'vintage' tv websites.