Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism [electronic resource] : Harleys and Hormones /
Whelehan, I.editor.
Gwynne, J.editor.
How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Popular Culture's 'Silver Tsunami'; 1 Conscientious Objections: Feminism, Fiction and the Phoney War on Ageing; 2 Fiction or Polemic? Transcending the Ageing Body in Popular Women's Fiction; 3 'Mrs Robinson Seeks Benjamin': Cougars, Popular Memoirs and the Quest for Fulfilment in Midlife and Beyond; 4 Sexing Up the Midlife Woman: Cultural Representations of Ageing, Femininity and the Sexy Body; 5 Paternalising the Rejuvenation of Later Life Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Film
6 Too Old for This Shit?: On Ageing Tough Guys7 'The (un-Botoxed) Face of a Hollywood Revolution': Meryl Streep and the 'Greying' of Mainstream Cinema; 8 Grown Up Girls: Newspaper Reviews of Ageing Women in Pop; 9 Mature Meryl and Hot Helen: Hollywood, Gossip and the 'Appropriately' Ageing Actress; 10 Funny Old Girls: Representing Older Women in British Television Comedy; 11 Silence Isn't Golden, Girls: The Cross-Generational Comedy of 'America's Grandma,' Betty White; 12 The Older Mother in One Born Every Minute; 13 Women, Travelling and Later Life
14 Kane and Edgar: Playing with Age in Film15 Beyond Wicked Witches and Fairy Godparents: Ageing and Gender in Children's Fantasy on Screen; Index
Includes index.
How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration.
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