With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that span the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes as our population gets older, this book offers a broad range of readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging.
With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that span the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes as our population gets older, this book offers a broad range of readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging.
Norma Jones is the coeditor of Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture and Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Bob Batchelor, a noted cultural historian, is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including: The 1900s, The 1980s, The 2000s, American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade (4 volumes); John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013); and Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). Batchelor is founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal and editor of the Contemporary American Literature series published by Rowman & Littlefield.
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Acknowledgments Introduction On the Silver Screen: Aging Heroes in Film Genres Twilight Heroes: Old Age and Unfinished Business in Four "Heartland" Films Cynthia J. Miller Golden Agers, Recluses and John Wayne: Aging Stereotypes and Aging Heroes in Movie Westerns Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis AAADRRIAAN! I'll Be Baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as Aging Action Heroes Norma Jones Under the Wide and Starry Sky: Hollywood and Aging Astronauts, 1996-2000 A. Bowdoin Van Riper Diversity Concerns: Sexuality, Race and Gender Queering Aging? Representations of Liberace's Intimate Life in HBO's Behind the Candelabra Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen Overcoming the Villainous Monster: The Beginnings of Heroic Gay Male Aging Dustin Bradley Goltz The Power of Performance: Tyler Perry's Madea as Village Sage and Superwoman Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo "Not bad for an abuela, eh?" The representation of the power of age in Maya & Miguel Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher Babes and Crones: Women Growing Old in Comics Caryn E. Neumann Being a Man? Masculinity and Aging Heroes Aging Masculinity in Popular Culture: The Case of Mad Men's Roger Sterling Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D'Enbeau Aging Superheroes: Retirement and Return in Kingdom Come and Old Man Logan Nathan Miczo Mr. Incredible, the Man-of-Action, The Man-of-Power: What If He Loses It All? Itir Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya "He has to be good. The Airline Won't Settle for Less:" Gender, Age, and the Trope of the Male Pilot in Advertising Guilliaume de Syon Real to Reel: Individuals Aging On and Off the Screen Helen Mirren and the Media Portrayals of Aging: Women's Sexuality Concealed and Revealed Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pré, and Loretta L. Pecchioni Hellraiser, Dandy, Eccentric: The Evolving Star Persona of Peter O'Toole in the 1980s and Beyond Anna Thompson Hajdik The Betty White Moment: The Rhetoric of Constructing Aging and Sexuality Kathleen Turner The Re-characterization of Age and the Aging Bricoleur: Danny Trejo's Reinvention of Aging in Acting Salvador Jimenez-Murguia Index About the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgments Introduction On the Silver Screen: Aging Heroes in Film Genres Twilight Heroes: Old Age and Unfinished Business in Four "Heartland" Films Cynthia J. Miller Golden Agers, Recluses and John Wayne: Aging Stereotypes and Aging Heroes in Movie Westerns Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis AAADRRIAAN! I'll Be Baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as Aging Action Heroes Norma Jones Under the Wide and Starry Sky: Hollywood and Aging Astronauts, 1996-2000 A. Bowdoin Van Riper Diversity Concerns: Sexuality, Race and Gender Queering Aging? Representations of Liberace's Intimate Life in HBO's Behind the Candelabra Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen Overcoming the Villainous Monster: The Beginnings of Heroic Gay Male Aging Dustin Bradley Goltz The Power of Performance: Tyler Perry's Madea as Village Sage and Superwoman Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo "Not bad for an abuela, eh?" The representation of the power of age in Maya & Miguel Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher Babes and Crones: Women Growing Old in Comics Caryn E. Neumann Being a Man? Masculinity and Aging Heroes Aging Masculinity in Popular Culture: The Case of Mad Men's Roger Sterling Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D'Enbeau Aging Superheroes: Retirement and Return in Kingdom Come and Old Man Logan Nathan Miczo Mr. Incredible, the Man-of-Action, The Man-of-Power: What If He Loses It All? Itir Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya "He has to be good. The Airline Won't Settle for Less:" Gender, Age, and the Trope of the Male Pilot in Advertising Guilliaume de Syon Real to Reel: Individuals Aging On and Off the Screen Helen Mirren and the Media Portrayals of Aging: Women's Sexuality Concealed and Revealed Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pré, and Loretta L. Pecchioni Hellraiser, Dandy, Eccentric: The Evolving Star Persona of Peter O'Toole in the 1980s and Beyond Anna Thompson Hajdik The Betty White Moment: The Rhetoric of Constructing Aging and Sexuality Kathleen Turner The Re-characterization of Age and the Aging Bricoleur: Danny Trejo's Reinvention of Aging in Acting Salvador Jimenez-Murguia Index About the Editors and Contributors
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