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001 2014028985
003 DLC
005 20150511140138.0
008 140730s2014 enk 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014028985
020 $a9781137376527 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aP94.5.A38$bA34 2014
082 00 $a305.26$223
084 $aSOC010000$aSOC032000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aAgeing, popular culture and contemporary feminism :$bHarleys and hormones /$cedited by Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia and Joel Gwynne, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York, New York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $ax, 254 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"The past decade has seen an increase in popular cultural representations of ageing, in response to the realities of an ageing Western population and an acknowledgement of the economic significance of consumption by seniors. Yet, while contemporary film often depicts late middle to old age as a time of renewal and acceptance, most popular depictions of ageing focus on images of loss, decline, and the fear of physically ageing 'naturally'. Ageing in popular culture is a battlefield, with an increasing range of euphemisms used to disguise the fact of age. Feminist discourse has kept forever young, even though some of its most eminent proponents are ageing and dying. In the field of popular cultural studies the emphasis on the discourse of postfeminism and the 'girling' of culture has foregrounded the concerns of young women at the expense of a focus on older women, or what 'gender' means for middle-aged to older people generally. This collection demonstrates how popular culture constructs ageing as a perilous experience for not only women but also for men, while also underscoring the possibilities (and problems) of positive representations of ageing in the wider culture and in feminist criticism. "--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aNotes on Contributors -- Introduction: Popular Culture's "Silver Tsunami"; Imelda Whelehan and Joel Gwynne -- 1. Conscientious Objections: Feminism, Fiction and the Phoney War on Ageing; Liz Byrski -- 2. Fiction or polemic? Transcending the Ageing Body in Popular Women's Fiction; Imelda Whelehan -- 3. 'Mrs Robinson seeks Benjamin': Cougars, Popular Memoirs and the Quest for Fulfillment in Midlife and Beyond; Joel Gwynne -- 4. Sexing-up the Midlife Woman: Cultural Representations of Ageing, Femininity, and the Sexy Body; Sharron Hinchliff -- 5. Paternalizing the Rejuvenation of Later Life Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Film; Hannah Hamad -- 6. Too Old For This Shit?: On Aging Tough Guys; Dominic Lennard -- 7. 'The (un-Botoxed) Face of a Hollywood Revolution': Meryl Streep and the 'Greying' of Mainstream Cinema; Deborah Jermyn -- 8. Grown Up Girls: Newspaper Reviews of Ageing Women in Pop; Lynne Hibberd -- 9. Mature Meryl and Hot Helen: Hollywood, Gossip and the 'Appropriately' Ageing Actress; Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs -- 10. Funny Old Girls: Representing Older Women in British Television Comedy; Rosie White -- 11. Silence Isn't Golden, Girls: The Cross-Generational Comedy of 'America's Grandma' Betty White; Elizabeth Rawitsch -- 12. The Older Mother in One Born Every Minute; Georgina Ellen O'Brien Hill -- 13. Women, Travelling and Later Life; Sarah Falcus and Katsura Sako -- 14. Kane and Edgar: Playing with Age in Film; Dee Michell, Casey Tonkin and Penelope Eate -- 15. Beyond Wicked Witches And Fairy Godparents: Ageing and Gender in Children's Fantasy on Screen; Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario and Deb Waterhouse-Watson -- Index.
650 0 $aMass media and older people.
650 0 $aOlder people in popular culture.
650 0 $aFeminism.
650 0 $aAgeism.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aWhelehan, Imelda,$d1960-$eeditor.
700 1 $aGwynne, Joel,$eeditor.