Ageing, popular culture and contemporary feminism : Harleys and hormones / edited by Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia ; Joel Gwynne, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
"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...
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The 'Greying' of Popular Culture?; 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.