Ebook: Discourses of Care: Media Practices and Cultures

This critical anthology, featuring a joint authored critical introductory essay and 15 specially commissioned original essays, is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media (films, television documentaries and non-theatrical cinema) in relation to the concept and practice of care and caregiving. They explore how media texts may be understood not solely to 'represent' care, but rather they seek to understand that the instrumental use and experience of media play an important role in the routines, everyday intimacies and practices of care, whether this is in public institutions, or in the private bedrooms of individuals.
Divided into four sections, the anthology explores different ways in which media represent, articulate and enact modes of care and caring. The essays are brought together to reveal how different kinds of media representation, media technologies, media practices and ideologies are embedded in the understanding and value of care in everyday lives. Bringing together scholars from film and television studies, medical humanities, as well as disability and literary studies, Discourses of Care intervenes in debates concerning the way in which medical and social care are understood and integrated into the analysis of media and cultural studies.