Television and the Moving Body - (Edinburgh Studies in Television) by Zoë Shacklock (Hardcover)

About the Book

Explores the significance of the moving body on television

Book Synopsis

To watch television is to watch bodies in motion: walking, dancing, cooking, fighting, running, playing, travelling, and so on. Television and the Moving Body presents the first detailed exploration of the moving body on television. It analyses different types of movement, including walking, dancing, sports, and craft, outlining how these different movement profiles are employed to construct time, tell stories, work through cultural issues, and foster empathy.
Through a range of case studies across different genres and formats, including Gogglebox, The West Wing, Taskmaster, The Repair Shop, Strictly Come Dancing and Sense8, this book examines what television's moving bodies tell us both about normative ideas of movement and identity, and about television itself.

Review Quotes

Shacklock does an excellent job of building on foundational theoretical ideas and contemporary television studies to offer a unique framework for exploring movement on television. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.--S. Pepper "Choice Connect"

"This inspired study of television as a medium of movement gifts us a powerful new toolbox for questioning problematic associations between television, sedentariness, and passivity. Through wide-ranging analysis of both moving bodies on screen and embodied responses to television, this book launches kinaesthesia as an exciting new theoretical framework for television studies, offering new insights into many of our key concepts, from flow, liveness and seriality, to intimacy, empathy and care."-- "Dr Sofia Bull, University of Southampton"

About the Author

Dr Zoë Shacklock is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on the body in contemporary television, with particular interests in movement, queerness and empathy.