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Serializing Age Aging and Old Age in TV Series Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Anita Wohlmann
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Aging studies ; Volume 7.
- Aging Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- TV Series.
- Old Age.
- Age.
- Aging.
- Temporality.
- Aging Studies.
- Television.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- TV Series.
- Old Age.
- Age.
- Aging.
- Temporality.
- Aging Studies.
- Television.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Oró-Piqueras/Wohlmann (eds.), Serializing Age Aging and Old Age in TV Series
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2015
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Maricel Oró-Piqueras, born in 1977, is a member of the research group Dedal-Lit and teaches literature, culture, and English language at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. Her research focuses on British contemporary writers such as Julian Barnes, Deborah Moggach and Kazuo Ishiguro. She has published articles in journals such as the "Journal of Aging Studies" and the "Journal of English Studies".
- Anita Wohlmann (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. As of November 2017, she will be Assistant Professor of Literature and Narrative Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research project »Body and Metaphor: Narrative-Based Metaphor Analysis in Medical Humanities« is funded by the German Research Foundation (2017-2020). Her research focuses on age studies, American film and culture studies and medical humanities.
- 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 TV series as a powerful cultural medium 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.
- Besprochen in: tv diskurs, 1 (2017), Lothar Mikos
- »The book can thus be read as a first step in this direction, and it clearly outlines the desiderata to be dealt with in future studies.«
- »Die Darstellung des menschlichen Alterungsprozesses sowie von alten Menschen in den Narrativen des Mainstream-Fernsehens ist häufig unkonventionell – gleichzeitig jedoch wird diese Neuartigkeit immer noch mit stereotypen Elementen aufgeweicht. Es ist ein großer Verdienst dieser Publikation, dass in den elf durchweg sehr guten Aufsätzen beide Aspekte differenziert herausgearbeitet werden.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Serial Narrative, Temporality and Aging: An Introduction 9 "Time, Memory, and Aging on the Soaps" 25 Business as Usual 49 Heroine and/or Caricature? 69 "Vampires Don't Age, But Actors Sure Do" 89 In the Twilight of Their Lives? 109 Wait For It...! 137 Serial Cougars 159 Still Looking 187 "You've Got Time" 207 "I'm Too Old to Pretend Anymore" 231 "Blanche and the Younger Man" 249 Aging beyond the Rhetoric of Aging 269 Contributors 273
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- ISBN:
- 9783839432761
- 3839432766
- OCLC:
- 1002232653
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