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Gorton and Hansen offer a fresh and enlightening look at the complex entwinement of television and memory, significantly advancing our understanding of how and why past television programs and technologies are remembered in the ways that they are. With its wide-ranging and incisive case studies, this book challenges readers to reassess what it means to describe television as a form of heritage. -- Jennifer L. Gillan, Professor of English and Media Studies, Bentley University, USA Brilliantly bringing memory studies and television studies into dialogue, Gorton and Garde-Hansen explore how museums, hobbyists and the TV industry seek to (re-)activate 'old TV'. While commemorative culture is becoming ever more important to branding, Remembering British Television argues for the importance of everyday TV memories - to audiences and fans alike. Television memory matters, so how best can its inheritances be critically analysed? This outstanding book curates a series of compelling, inclusive answers. -- Matt Hills, Professor of Journalism and Media, University of Huddersfield, UK

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KRISTYN GORTON is Senior Lecturer in Television Studies in the Department of Theatre, Film & Television at the University of York, UK. 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' (2013). 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, 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' (2013). She has led a number of funded research projects on media, memory and community (Flood Memories, Dennis Potter Heritage project, Hidden Lives project).

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