Serializing age : aging and old age in TV series / Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Anita Wohlmann (eds.).

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund For Television and Broadcast Media.
• Oró Piqueras, Maricel, editor.
• Wohlmann, Anita, editor.
• Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

• Aging studies ; v. 7.
• Aging studies ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Older people on television.
• Television and older people.
• Television series--Social aspects.
• Television programs--Social aspects.
• Aging in mass media.
• Television programs.
• Television series.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing practices and new media technologies have resulted in complex television narratives, in which experimental temporalities and revisions of narrative linearity and chronological time have become key features. As the first of its kind, this volume investigates how the TV series as a powerful cultural medium can shape representations of age and aging, such as in ”Orange Is The New Black“, ”The Wire“ or ”Desperate Housewives“, to understand what it means to live in time. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Between Screen and Reality: Negotiating the Effects of Old Age and Aging
• "Time, Memory, and Aging on the Soaps" / C. Lee Harrington Harrington, C. Lee 25
• "Business as Usual: Retirement on The Wire" / Neal King King, Neal 49
• "Heroine and/or Caricature? The Older Woman in Desperate Housewives" / Ros Jennings Jennings, Ros, Maricel Oró-Piqueras Oró-Piqueras, Maricel 71
• Temporality and Aging: Experiments with Magic, Narrative and Genre
• '"Vampires Don't Age, But Actors Sure Do': The Cult of Youth and the Paradox of Aging in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" / Sally Chivers Chivers, Sally 91
• '"In the Twilight of Their Lives? Magical Objects as Serial Devices and Catalysts of Aging in The Twilight Zone" / Marta Miquel-Baldellou Miquel-Baldellou, Marta 109
• "Wait For It...! Temporality, Maturing, and the Depiction of Life Concepts in How I Met Your Mother" / Cecilia Colloseus Colloseus, Cecilia 137
• "Serial Cougars: Representations of a Non-Normative Lifestyle in a Sitcom, an Episodic Serial, and a Soap Opera" / Anita Wohlmann Wohlmann, Anita, Julia Reichenpfader Reichenpfader, Julia 159
• Sex and Desire Through the Lens of Television Time
• "Still Looking. Temporality and Gay Aging in US Television" / Dustin Bradley Goltz Goltz, Dustin Bradley 187
• "'You've Got Time': Ageing and Queer Temporality in Orange is the New Black" / Eva Krainitzki Krainitzki, Eva 207
• '"I'm Too Old to Pretend Anymore': Desire, Ageing and Last Tango in Halifax" / Kristyn Gorton Gorton, Kristyn 233
• '"Blanche and the Younger Man': Age Mimicry and the Ambivalence of Laughter in The Golden Girls" / Thomas Küpper Küpper, Thomas 251.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund For Television and Broadcast Media.

ISBN:

• 9783839432761
• 3839432766

Publisher Number:

• 99978433507
• 9783837632767

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.