The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film. (2023)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film. (2023)
- Main Title:
- The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film
- Further Information:
- Note: Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, Raquel Medina.
- Editors:
- Falcus, Sarah
Hartung, Heike
Medina, Raquel - Contents:
- List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to the Handbook I. Section OneIntroduction: Genre1. Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the Bildungsroman Margaret O'Neilland Michaela Schrage-Früh 2. Drama: Performing Age, Fighting Ageism Valerie Barnes Lipscomb3. Ageing in Poetry: A Windfall Tess Maginess4. Children's Literature: Young Readers, Older Authors Vanessa Joosen5. Writing Successful Ageing? The Aches and Pains of Illness Narrative and Life Review Martina Zimmermann6. Picturing What Happens at the End: Graphic Narratives of Ageing and End-of-Life Kathleen Venema7. Ageing in Science, Speculative and Fantasy Fiction Susan Watkins8. Old Age and the Gothic Zoe Brennan9. Ageing in Crime and Detective Fiction, Film, and Television: Subversion and Protest Marla Harris10. Serialising Age: Shifting Representations of Ageing and Old Age in TV Series Maricel Oró-Piqueras11. It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Ending: Comedy Film and Ageing Hanna Varjakoski II. Section TwoIntroduction: Themes and Concepts in Contemporary Ageing Studies12. Feminism, Gender and Age Nicole Haring and Roberta Maierhofer13. Queer Ageing Heather Jeronimo14. Stars and Protagonists in the Hollywood Conglomerate: Performativities of Hegemonic Masculinity and the Third-Age Imaginary Josephine Dolan 15. Late Style: Rejuvenating the Debate Amir Cohen-Shalev 16. Fallen, Falling, Clinging, and Crawling: The Everyday Age-Effects of Drama and Performance Bridie Moore17. Home Care, Cinema,List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction to the Handbook I. Section OneIntroduction: Genre1. Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the Bildungsroman Margaret O'Neilland Michaela Schrage-Früh 2. Drama: Performing Age, Fighting Ageism Valerie Barnes Lipscomb3. Ageing in Poetry: A Windfall Tess Maginess4. Children's Literature: Young Readers, Older Authors Vanessa Joosen5. Writing Successful Ageing? The Aches and Pains of Illness Narrative and Life Review Martina Zimmermann6. Picturing What Happens at the End: Graphic Narratives of Ageing and End-of-Life Kathleen Venema7. Ageing in Science, Speculative and Fantasy Fiction Susan Watkins8. Old Age and the Gothic Zoe Brennan9. Ageing in Crime and Detective Fiction, Film, and Television: Subversion and Protest Marla Harris10. Serialising Age: Shifting Representations of Ageing and Old Age in TV Series Maricel Oró-Piqueras11. It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Ending: Comedy Film and Ageing Hanna Varjakoski II. Section TwoIntroduction: Themes and Concepts in Contemporary Ageing Studies12. Feminism, Gender and Age Nicole Haring and Roberta Maierhofer13. Queer Ageing Heather Jeronimo14. Stars and Protagonists in the Hollywood Conglomerate: Performativities of Hegemonic Masculinity and the Third-Age Imaginary Josephine Dolan 15. Late Style: Rejuvenating the Debate Amir Cohen-Shalev 16. Fallen, Falling, Clinging, and Crawling: The Everyday Age-Effects of Drama and Performance Bridie Moore17. Home Care, Cinema, and the Relational Turn in Age Studies Sally Chivers18. Postcolonial Ageing Studies: Racialization, Resistance, Reimagination Emily Kate Timms19. Nation and Ageing: Mother India's Mutable Body Ira Raja20. Ageing in Latin American Cinemas Barbara Zecchi and Raquel Medina21. Narratives of Old Age and Climate Change: Silver Tsunamis and Rising Tides Anna Kainradl and Ulla Kriebernegg22. Ageism and Ableism on the Silvering Screen: Entanglements of Disability and Ageing in Films Centred on Dementia Hailee M. Yoshizaki-Gibbons23. The Phenomenology of Frailty: Joan Didion as Case Study Elizabeth Barry III. Section ThreeIntroduction: Case Studies24. Dementia in Japanese Cinema: The Family and Rural Nostalgia Katsura Sako25. Changing the Face of Catalan Theatre: New Portraits of Old Age in Two Contemporary Dramatic Comedies Núria Casado-Gual26. History's Intricate Invasions: Ageing and Traumatic Memory in Caribbean Discourse Paula Morgan27. Ageing in Contemporary Welsh Fiction in English Elinor Shepley28. African American Women and Ageing: Remembering Afro-Amerindian Ancestors in Alice Walker's Now is the Time to Open Your Heart Saskia Fürst29. Contemporary Age Narrative in Aotearoa New Zealand Paola Della Valle30. Representations of Ageing in Russian Fiction: Between Remembering and Forgetting Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl31. Beckett's Radical Exploration of the Vulnerability of Ageing Women in Happy Days and Rockaby Irene de Angelis32. Affective Oriented Time: Finitude and Ageing in Jackie Kay's Border Country Marta Cerezo33. A Seasoned, Female Robinson Crusoe: Ageing, Solitude, and Resilience in Louise en hiver Aagje Swinnen34. Ageing and Narration in Huntington's Disease Memoirs Pramod NayarIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (480 pages)
- Subjects:
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Films, cinema
Psychology of ageing
Literary Criticism -- Feminist
Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism
Social Science -- Gerontology
Literary studies: from c 1900 - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350204355
1350204358 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350204331
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