Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations
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ISBN-13: 9781443838832
ISBN-10: 1443838837
Pagini: 255
Dimensiuni: 147 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN-10: 1443838837
Pagini: 255
Dimensiuni: 147 x 211 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Rebecca D'Monte is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She has co-edited two books: 1999. Female Communities 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities (with Nicole Pohl) Macmillan; and 2007. Cool Britannia: British Political Drama in the 1990s (with Graham Saunders) Palgrave. She has published research on the plays of April de Angelis and her other publications include, 2009. Origin and Ownership: Stage, Film, and TV Adaptations of Rebecca. In Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities, ed. Rachel Carroll. Continuum; 2008. Feminising the Nation and the Country House: Women Dramatists 1938-1940. In New Versions of Pastoral: Post-Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Responses to the Tradition, eds. David James and Philip Tew. New Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. She is currently preparing two monographs: British Theatre during the Second World War; and British Theatre and Performance, 1900-1950; for the Methuen Drama Critical Companion Series. Marta Miquel-Baldellou is an Associate Lecturer in English and Linguistics at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Building on her doctoral thesis, her current research is focussed on conceptualisations of aging in Victorian and nineteenth-century American literatures, especially the work of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe. In 2008 she was awarded a government scholarship to study at the University of Leicester's Victorian Studies Centre and her work has been presented at numerous international conferences. Her publications include, 2008. Demonising the Victorian Heroine's Coming-of-Age in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Lucretia and Edgar Allan Poe's Women's Tales. Odisea. No. 9; 2009. Caught Up In Between Doublets: Neo-Victorian (Trans)Positions of Victorian Femininities and Masculinities in Jane Eyre and Rebecca, Revue LISA/LISA e-journal. Vol. VII. No. 4; 2010. Mary Reilly as Jekyll or Hyde: Neo-Victorian (Re)Creations of Feminism and Femininity. Journal of English Studies, Vol. 8. She is a member of the DEDAL-LIT research group which researches English language literary representations of aging, as well as being a member of ENAS (European Network in Aging Studies). Nedira Yakir is a lecturer in Art History on the M.A. programme at Falmouth College of Art, UK. She is a leading expert on women modernist and postmodernist artists, a regular speaker at international art events, and she frequently contributes to exhibition catalogues. In 2007 she presented the inaugural lecture of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust and her publications include, 2002. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham & Margaret Mellis: the Gendered Construction of "St Ives: Display, Positioning and Displacement; 1998. Cornubia: Gender, Geography and Genealogy in St. Ives Modernism. In Katy Deepwell, ed. Manchester University Press; and March 2010. Visual Poetry and Joy in Flowing Lines: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Drawings. PROOF. Mary MacMaster is a Ph.D. student at Norwich University College of the Arts, U.K., where she obtained an M.A. in Photographic Studies following her retirement from the Headship of a First School. Her doctoral research, Growing Old for Real: Women, Image and Identity (www.growingold.co.uk) is concerned with the effects of image on women as they age. The methodology for the thesis is a forthcoming publication, 2012. In Miranda Leontowitsch, ed. Researching Later Life - Expanding Qualitative Research Agendas and Methods. Palgrave MacMillan. Estella Tincknell is an Associate Professor in Film and Culture at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is the author of 2005. Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation. Edward Arnold; the co-editor (with Ian Conrich) of 2006. Film's Musical Moments. Edinburgh University Press; and is currently working on a forthcoming monograph, 2013. Viewing Jane Campion: Angels, Demons and Voices. Palgrave MacMillan. Her shorter publications include: 2010. The Time and the Place: Music and Costume and the "Affect" of History in the New Zealand Films of Jane Campion. In New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past, eds. Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner. Intellect; 2010. "A Sunken Dream:" Music and the Gendering of Nostalgia in Life on Mars. In Popular Music on British Television, ed. Ian Inglis, Ashgate; Tears at Bedtime: The Television Make-over Show and the Reconstruction of Femininity under Neoliberalism. In New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Identity, eds. Ros Gill and Christina Scharff; 2009. Feminine Boundaries: Adolescence, Witchcraft and the Supernatural in New Gothic Cinema and Television. In Horrorzone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema, ed. Ian Conrich, Verso. 2009; Double O Agencies: Femininity, Post-feminism and the Female Spy. In Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale, ed. Christoph Lindner, Wallflower Press. She is a member of the A.H.R.C. funded WAM (Women, Aging, Media) research network and her most recent publications on aging and gender include a star study of Goldie Hawn in Aging, Performance and Stardom. Aging Studies in Europe, Vol. 2, 2011. Josephine Dolan is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is a founder member of the A.H.R.C. funded WAM (Women, Aging, Media) research network, an expert advisor to ENAS (European Network of Aging Studies) and a member of the advisory board for the journal of popular culture, Oceana. Her research interests include British cinema and her publications include, 2012. 'Stuff it!" Letter to Brezhnev, Affect and Respectability. Journal of British Cinema and Television, Vol. 9. No. 2; 2010 (with Sarah Street); 20 million people can't be wrong: Anna Neagle and popular British stardom. In Melanie Bell-Williams & Melanie Williams, eds. The British Woman's Picture. Routledge; 2009 (with Andrew Spicer) On the Margins: Anthony Simmons, The Optimists of Nine Elms and Black Joy. In Paul Newland, ed. Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s, Intellect. Her primary research focus, gender and aging, has resulted in the essays, 2012. The Queen: the Bio-pic, Ageing Femininity and the Recuperation of the Monarchy, Aging Studies in Europe, volume 2; 2012 (forthcoming) Firm and Hard: Stardom, Gender and the Troubling Embodiment of "successful aging". In De-Centring Cultural Studies: Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture, ed. Jose I. Prieto-Arranz. Cambridge Scholars Press; 2013 (forthcoming) Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, Old Age Femininity and the Pathological Gaze. In The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender. eds. Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Lisa McLaughlin, Routledge. Terryl Bacon is a Senior Lecturer in Media Practice at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is an experienced and widely exhibited photographer, experimental film maker and media artist who makes regular contributions to international symposia and conferences. A founder member of "The Ship of Fools" artist collective, her theorised/practice has previously engaged with on-line dating relationships through her film Embodied Intimacies and her research on visual documentation by indigenous peoples has been presented to a UN working party. Her current concern with aging femininity can be located at the intersection of new technologies and formations of gender / identity / relationships, both embodied and virtual. Kate Brooks is an Associate Head of Department in the Faculty of Creative Industries at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is author of a number of articles, chapters and books on aspects of media and gender, including, 2001. Making Sense of Men's Magazines, Polity; 2007. Loaded with Meaning. In The Tabloid Culture Reader, eds. Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn. Open University Press. This interest in masculinity underpins much of her ethnographic research which includes an investigation of student culture and gender, notably the 'slacker culture' of young male students, as well as concerns with the voluntary sector. Her publications to date include the article, 2002. Talking about Volunteering: a Discourse Analysis Approach to Volunteer Motivations. Voluntary Action Vol.4 No.3. Recently she has begun to explore older people and the voluntary sector, with a particular focus on the social exclusion of older men. Rosy Martin is an independent artist-photographer, psychological therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer, having formerly taught photographic theory, art history and visual culture at Staffordshire and Loughborough Universities and at University College for the Creative Arts, UK. She currently works as an artist-photographer using self-portraiture, still life photography, digital imaging and video, and as a psychological-therapist exploring the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes. From 1983, with Jo Spence, she pioneered re-enactment phototherapy and, since 1985, she has exhibited internationally as well as running experiential workshops and lecturing in British, Canadian, Irish, Finnish and American universities and galleries, and her extensive publications include an essay in 2012. Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in the Digital Age, Ed. Del Lowenthal. Taylor & Francis; 1997/2012. Looking and Reflecting. In Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy, ed. Susan Hogan, Routledge; 2006. Curating the museum of sources: Stilled Lives, memory, mortality and the domestic space. In Stilled - Contemporary Still Life Photography by Women, ed. Kate Newton and Christine Rolph Iris and Ffotogallery Publications; 2003. Challenging Invisibility: Outrageous Agers. In Gender Issues in Art Therapy. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Susan Hogan ed. Most recently, she was a consultant researcher on the E.S.R.C. funded project, "Look At Me! Images of Women and Ageing: Representing Self, Representing Ageing" at Sheffield University (http://www.representing-ageing.com/). From 2000 to 2003 she collaborated with Kay Goodridge on the Outrageous Agers series of exhibitions. Kay Goodridge is a photographic artist who has held residencies at academic and community institutions, such as 2009. Anglia Ruskin University; 2008. Cambridge Museum of Technology; 2004. Adenbrookes Hospital Archives and, 1998. Corona House, Women and Homelessness Group. Her work is frequently exhibited at national and international events, most recently, March 2012. The Space Between, solo show at The Wiener Library and The Crypt Gallery, London, U.K.; November November 2011. Connessione - Exhibition of photos at Aghinas, Bosa, Sardinia, Italy; October 2010. AA2A commission exhibition at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, U.K.; 2009. Lost and Found, Tuili Arts Festival, Sardinia, Italy; November 2009. Retrospective 1992-2009 Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire U.K. From 2000 to 2003 she collaborated with Rosy Martin on the Outrageous Agers series of exhibitions. Sherryl Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her research is focussed on British and American television and television histories and her publications include the book, 2003. Oprah, Celebrity and Formations of the Self. Palgrave; and the book chapter, "It Was a Mascara Runnin' Kinda Day:" Oprah Winfrey, Confession, Celebrity and the Formation of Trust. In Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media, eds. Vian Bakir and David Barlow. Palgrave. As a member of the Southern Broadcast History Group whose project "No Such thing as Society?" (http://www.nosuch-research.co.uk/) was awarded A.H.R.C funding, she is investigating televisual representations of aging and mental illness in nineteen eighties television dramas centred on the National Health Service and her paper entitled, "Dramatising Health Care in the Age of Thatcher" will be published in the Spring 2012 edition of Critical Studies in Television. A founder member of the A.H.R.C. funded WAM (Women, Ageing, Media) research network, she is currently researching the intersection of aging and digital cultures. Dr. Nuria Casado-Gual is a lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. She is the author of a PhD thesis on the theatricalization of racism in Edgar Nkosi White's plays, and has published numerous articles on this Afro-Caribbean author and other contemporary playwrights. She is a member of the DEDAL-LIT research group, which examines English language literary representations of aging and which currently participates in the European project "Live to Be a Hundred". Her co-edited book (with Maria Vidal Grau) 2004. The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English, DEDAL-LIT, reflects results from the group's activities. In 2008 she also edited a Catalan translation of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Lear. Nuria Casado-Gual's current research interests include ageing and its cinematic representations, Young Adult and Children's Literature, and comparative literature. Theatre studies, however, remain her main field of expertise, which she also explores from a practical point of view as both playwright and performer. Joanne Garde-Hansen is currently a Principal Lecturer in Media, and Director of the Research Centre of Media, Memory and Community at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has (with Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading) co-edited 2011. Save As...Digital Memories. Palgrave; is the author of 2011, Media and Memory, Edinburgh University Press; and co-editor (with Owain Jones) of 2012. Geography and Memory, Palgrave. Currently she is writing with Kristyn Gorton, Emotion Online for Palgrave. A founder member of WAM (Women, Aging, Media) she has published numerous journal articles on memory, media, archiving, nostalgia and aging and leads the academic research on a number of community projects focused on media, memory and local heritage. Pamela Karantonis is currently a lecturer in Drama at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. She gained her Ph.D. at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is a joint convener-elect of the Music Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research and much of her research is focused on indigenous peoples. Her publications include, 2007. Takarazuka is burning: music theatre and the performance of sexual and gender identities in modern Japan, Studies in Musical Theatre, Vol. 2, Issue 2; Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures. Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera. She was (with Dylan Robinson) co-editor of, 2011. Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures. Ashgate, and she has published numerous essays on performance with the online journals www.performanceparadigm.net and The International Journal of the Arts in Society. Pamela was invited to present at one of Royal Holloway, University of London's Joint-Research Council funded symposia, for the project Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging in 2011 and in 2009, was also invited to speak on the decolonizing potential of opera at an Oxford University European Humanities Research Council Colloquium. She is currently working on two publications that deal with issues of vocal performance, gender and concepts of nationhood. Dr Abigail Gardner is a Principal Lecturer in Media and Popular Music Theory at the University of Gloucestershire. Her recent work has explored themes on aging and memory with respect to women in popular music and music video. She is co-editor (with Ros Jennings) of 2012. Rock On: Women, Ageing and Popular Music, Ashgate; and (with Sarah Casey Benyahia, Philip Rayner, Peter Wall) is co-author of 2013. Media Studies: the Essential Resource, Routledge. She is currently researching a paper on PJ Harvey's album Let England Shake and a monograph on PJ Harvey. She is a member of WAM, The Centre for Women, Aging and Media Research Centre, and of the South-West Popular Music Group. Paul Watson is a Senior Lecturer in Media and the Head of English Studies at Teesside University. His research is focussed on issues of popular entertainment and representation, and the relations between them; and he has also written extensively on the representation of gendered identities. His publications on cinema include major contributions to 2007. Introduction to Film Studies (fourth edition), ed. Jill Nelmes, Routledge; and 2002. American Cinema, Political Criticism and Pragmatism: A therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia. In American Film and Politics from Reagan to Bush Jr., eds. Philip John Davies and Paul Wells, Manchester University Press. He is the co-author (with Diane Railton) of a number of articles including, 2005. Naughty Girls and Red Blooded Women: Representations of female heterosexuality in music video, Feminist Media Studies Volume 5, Issue 1; as well as a forthcoming book, 2011. Music Video and the Politics of Identity Edinburgh University Press in 2011. His most recent research is concerned with the aging process as constructed in popular discourse. Diane Railton is a Senior Lecturer in Media and a member of the English Studies Section at Teesside University. Her research interests are in issues of gender and popular culture and she has written extensively on popular music and its discursive structures. Her publications include, 2001. The Gendered Carnival of Pop, Cambridge Journals Online, Vol. 20. Issue 03; 2007. Sexed Authorship and Pornographic Address in Music Video. In Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture, eds. Kaarina Nikunen, Susanna Paasonen, Laura Saarenmaa; 2012. Justify My Love: Popular Culture and the Academy, M/C Journal, Vol. 15, No 2; 2012. Rebel without a Pause: the Continuity of Controversy in Madonna's Contemporary Music Videos (with Paul Watson). In. Rock On: Women, Aging and Popular Music, eds. Abigail Gardner and Ros Jennings. Ashgate. She is also the co-author (with Paul Watson) of the book, 2012. Music Video and the Politics of Identity, Edinburgh University Press; and has also published more widely on the subjects of popular music, computer games, popular literature and the discursive processes by which they are gendered.