Contemporary cinema and 'old age' : gender and the silvering of stardom /
This book is the first to explore 'old age' in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies. It takes its cue from the dual meanings of ̀silvering' - economics and ageing - and explores shifting formulations of ̀old age' and gender in contemporary cin...
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Concerns, positions, intersections
- From the silvering of audiences to the silver of spin-offs
- The silvering of celebrity stardom: late-style icons and Brain Aged(d) gender
- Performing gender and 'old-age': silvering beauty and having a laugh
- The silvering of genre: deferred retirement and hard-bodies dissonance
- A hard story to tell: silvering abjection and the gendered prosthetics of the fourth age imaginary
- Conclusion: In hope of provocation.
