Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing [electronic resource] : Freeze Frame /
Jermyn, Deborah.editor.
Holmes, Susan.editor.
This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedicate; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: A Timely Intervention - Unravelling the Gender/Age/Celebrity Matrix; 1 Here, There and Nowhere: Ageing, Gender and Celebrity Studies; 2 Reconfiguring Elinor Glyn: Ageing Female Experience and the Origins of the 'It Girl'; 4 Moms Mabley and Whoopi Goldberg: Age, Comedy and Celebrity
9 The Best Exotic Graceful Ager: Dame Judi Dench and Older Female Celebrity10 'I'm Not Past My Sell By Date Yet!': Sarah Jane's Adventures in Postfeminist Rejuvenation and the Later-Life Celebrity of Elisabeth Sladen; 11 'Call the Celebrity': Voicing the Experience of Women and Ageing through the Distinctive Vocal Presence of Vanessa Redgrave; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities.
Feminist theory.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Culture.
Communication.
Feminism.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Sociology of Culture.
Media Studies.