Television and the Moving Body

Zoe Shacklock

Television and the Moving Body
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
11 March 2025
Pages
200
ISBN
9781399511377

Television and the Moving Body

Zoe Shacklock

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.

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