Becoming of Age Cinematic Visions of Mind, Body and Identity in Later Life

Name: Becoming of Age Cinematic Visions of Mind, Body and Identity in Later Life
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ISBN: 9780786472604

ISBN-10: 078647260X

ISBN-13: 9780786472604

Edition: 2013

Authors: Pamela H. Gravagne

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This is a critical examination of the ways that aging and old age are represented and given meaning in popular film. Arguing that the narratives, discourses, and philosophical positions that underlie filmic depictions of growing older are historical and open to revision, the author evaluates how a given film both portrays aging or older characters and tells the larger story of aging itself. Using the evaluations to explain how knowledge about aging and old age is made visible through film, the book shows how movies are able not only to promote negative portrayals of aging but also to challenge the cultural devaluation of old age. Movies cannot only consolidate age-based exclusionary…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 5/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Understanding and Theorizing Aging and Old Age



Masculinities and the Narrative of Decline



The Silence and Invisibility of Older Women



Intimacy and Desire in Later Life



The Cultural Work of Alzheimer's



Age as Becoming


Chapter Notes


Bibliography


Index