Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism

Harleys and Hormones

  • Imelda Whelehan
  • Joel Gwynne
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Popular Culture’s ‘Silver Tsunami’
    Imelda Whelehan, Joel Gwynne
    Pages 1-13
  3. Conscientious Objections: Feminism, Fiction and the Phoney War on Ageing
    Liz Byrski
    Pages 14-28
  4. Fiction or Polemic? Transcending the Ageing Body in Popular Women’s Fiction
    Imelda Whelehan
    Pages 29-46
  5. ‘Mrs Robinson Seeks Benjamin’: Cougars, Popular Memoirs and the Quest for Fulfilment in Midlife and Beyond
    Joel Gwynne
    Pages 47-62
  6. Sexing Up the Midlife Woman: Cultural Representations of Ageing, Femininity and the Sexy Body
    Sharron Hinchliff
    Pages 63-77
  7. Paternalising the Rejuvenation of Later Life Masculinity in Twenty- First Century Film
    Hannah Hamad
    Pages 78-92
  8. Too Old for This Shit?: On Ageing Tough Guys
    Dominic Lennard
    Pages 93-107
  9. ‘The (un-Botoxed) Face of a Hollywood Revolution’: Meryl Streep and the ‘Greying’ of Mainstream Cinema
    Deborah Jertnyn
    Pages 108-123
  10. Grown Up Girls: Newspaper Reviews of Ageing Women in Pop
    Lynne Hibberd
    Pages 124-139
  11. Mature Meryl and Hot Helen: Hollywood, Gossip and the ‘Appropriately’ Ageing Actress
    Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs
    Pages 140-155
  12. Funny Old Girls: Representing Older Women in British Television Comedy
    Rosie White
    Pages 155-171
  13. Silence Isn’t Golden, Girls: The Cross-Generational Comedy of ‘America’s Grandma’, Betty White
    Elizabeth Rawitsch
    Pages 172-186
  14. The Older Mother in One Born Every Minute
    Georgina Ellen O’Brien Hill
    Pages 187-202
  15. Women, Travelling and Later Life
    Sarah Falcus, Katsura Sako
    Pages 203-218
  16. Kane and Edgar: Playing with Age in Film
    Dee Michell, Casey Tonkin, Penelope Eate
    Pages 219-232
  17. Beyond Wicked Witches and Fairy Godparents: Ageing and Gender in Children’s Fantasy on Screen
    Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, Deb Waterhouse-Watson
    Pages 233-247
  18. Back Matter
    Pages 249-254
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About this book

Introduction

How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions still focus on decline and deterioration.

Keywords

ageing gender feminism postfeminism film television fiction femininity masculinity comedy genre action ageing and gender culture women

Editors and affiliations

  • Imelda Whelehan
    • 1
  • Joel Gwynne
    • 2
  1. 1.University of TasmaniaAustralia
  2. 2.National Institute of EducationNanyang Technological UniversitySingapore

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137376534
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Media & Culture Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-47771-5
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-37653-4
  • About this book