Elder horror : essays on film's frightening images of aging / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging in motion pictures.

Older people in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

viii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

"This collection of new essays explores how various filmic portrayals of aging--as an inescapable horror destined to overtake us all, as a terrifying time of reckoning with the past, as a portal to unimaginable powers--reflect our complex attitudes towards the elderly"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Victims No More

Ask not what your rest home can do for you": Self-Agency and Public Service in Bubba Ho-Tep p. 12 / Philip L. Simpson

Panic in Detroit: Don't Breathe and the Fear of Old Cities, Homes and Men p. 22 / Isaac Rooks

"It's the work of a crazy old woman": Revenge of the Elderly in The Devil-Doll p. 32 / Martin F. Norden

From Beneficent Elderly to Vile M'others: Familial Relations and Cannibalism in Troma's Rabid Grannies (1988) p. 46 / Steve J. Webley

II Aesthetics of Decay

The Shock of Aging (Women) in Horror Film p. 58 / Dawn Keetley

"To Grandmother's house we go": Documenting the Horror of the Aging Woman in Found Footage Films p. 70 / Maddi McGillvray

"More like music": Aging, Abjection and Dementia at the Overlook Hotel p. 81 / Sue Matheson

The Skeleton Key, the Southern Gothic and the Uncanny Decay of Teleological History p. 92 / Jessica Balanzategui

III Elders as Others/Outsiders

Making the Hard Choices: The Economics of Damnation in Drag Me to Hell p. 108 / Cynthia J. Miller

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the ugliest of them all?" The Elderly as "Other" in Countess Dracula p. 119 / Jennifer Richards

Old and In the Way: Torments of the Aging Male in Psycho II p. 129 / Hans Staats

The Limits of "Sundowning": M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit and the Horror of the Aging Body p. 140 / Stephanie M. Flint

IV Fighting Back Time

"The powers of time can be altered": The Ambiguities of Aging in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) p. 152 / Thomas Prasch

"You can be young forever": The Dread of Aging in Tony Scott's Art-Horror Film The Hunger p. 165 / James J. Ward

The Brittle Body: The Elderly and Cars in The Brotherhood of Satan p. 179 / Brian Brems

The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story p. 189 / Karen J. Renner

V What the Old Folks Know

Disturbing the Past: Horror and Historical Memory in Ghost Story (1981) p. 202 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Becoming Dr. Caligari p. 212 / Robert B. Luehrs

"Some kind of special": Queering Death Through Elder/Child Relationships in The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia p. 222 / Olivia Oliver-Hopkins

Flowers in the Attic: The Elderly as Monster p. 233 / Liam T. Webb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476675374

1476675376

OCLC:

1088670694