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Ageing femininity on screen : the older woman in contemporary cinema / Niall Richardson.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.A433 R53 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, Niall, author.
- Series:
- Library of gender and popular culture ; 8.
- Library of gender and popular culture ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures.
- Aging in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- United States.
- Older women.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Identifying 'Old' Age - Biological, Cultural and Social p. 1
- Gendering Age p. 2
- What Ever Did Happen to Baby Jane? p. 6
- Older Women as a Social 'Problem' p. 16
- Ageism and Gerontophobia p. 20
- 'Successful Ageing' and 'Third Age' p. 22
- 'Affirmation' Strategies? p. 29
- 1 Lady Power and Gentility: The Older Woman in Contemporary Heritage Cinema p. 31
- What is Heritage? p. 33
- Older Women and Heritage p. 36
- Gentility and Lady Power p. 39
- The Queen: Older Feminine Gentility as Postfeminist? p. 42
- Postfeminist Imperialism? p. 48
- Conclusion: Strategies of Greywashing? p. 52
- 2 Action! Performance and Performativity p. 57
- The Musical p. 58
- Last of the Blonde Bombshells and Quartet p. 61
- Mamma Mia! The Karaoke Musical p. 65
- Action Cinema: Representing the Older 'Action Babe' p. 72
- Helen Mirren: Performative Sexiness Performing the 'Action Babe' in RED and The Debt p. 75
- 3 'Get Off Your Asses for these Old Broads!': Age Camp and Age Drag p. 85
- Defining Camp? p. 86
- The Defensive Offensiveness of Age Camp? p. 89
- The Prime of Dame Maggie Smith p. 100
- Enter the Dragon: Ladies in Lavender p. 108
- The Downton Dowager Dragon p. 110
- Camp Conclusions p. 113
- 4 What Ever Happened to Sister George? Representing Ageing Lesbians p. 115
- Older Lesbians: A Triply Invisible Minority p. 116
- What Ever Did Happen to Sister George? Early Film Representations p. 117
- Sister George Still Lives? Notes on a Scandal p. 121
- Sister George is Now Teaching in a London Comprehensive School? p. 122
- Queering Paradigms of 'Appropriate Ageing': Notes on a Scandal as Contemporary Queer Cinema? p. 129
- Older Lesbians as Ambassadors for Marriage Equality: Cloudburst p. 134
- The Politics of Marriage Equality p. 138
- 5 'My Whole Life I have been Dressing up as a Man. This is Me': Representing Ageing Trans-Femininity p. 143
- Critical and Cultural Responses to Transgender Identifications p. 144
- Media Stereotypes p. 150
- Representing Older Trans Women: Desexualised Ambassadors for Transgender Rights p. 157
- Trans 'Affirmation'? p. 166
- 6 Long Live Our Gracious 'Queens': Representing Ageing Effeminacy p. 173
- Comparing Older Gay Men with Older Heterosexual Women: Ageing as Contagion and Victims of the Beauty Myth p. 174
- What Ever Happened to Quentin Crisp? p. 180.
- ISBN:
- 9781784532802
- 1784532800
- OCLC:
- 1063729891
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