Aging Heroes
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781442250062
ISBN-10: 1442250062
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 8 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-10: 1442250062
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 8 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Notă biografică
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
On the Silver Screen: Aging Heroes in Film Genres
Twilight Heroes: Old Age and Unfinished Business in Four ¿Heartland¿ Films
Cynthia J. Miller
Golden Agers, Recluses and John Wayne: Aging Stereotypes and Aging Heroes in Movie Westerns
Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis
AAADRRIAAN! I¿ll Be Baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as Aging Action Heroes
Norma Jones
Under the Wide and Starry Sky: Hollywood and Aging Astronauts, 1996-2000
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Diversity Concerns: Sexuality, Race and Gender
Queering Aging? Representations of Liberace¿s Intimate Life in HBO¿s Behind the Candelabra
Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen
Overcoming the Villainous Monster: The Beginnings of Heroic Gay Male Aging
Dustin Bradley Goltz
The Power of Performance: Tyler Perry¿s Madea as Village Sage and Superwoman
Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo
¿Not bad for an abuela, eh?¿ The representation of the power of age in Maya & Miguel
Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher
Babes and Crones: Women Growing Old in Comics
Caryn E. Neumann
Being a Man? Masculinity and Aging Heroes
Aging Masculinity in Popular Culture: The Case of Mad Men¿s Roger Sterling
Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D¿Enbeau
Aging Superheroes: Retirement and Return in Kingdom Come and Old Man Logan
Nathan Miczo
Mr. Incredible, the Man-of-Action, The Man-of-Power: What If He Loses It All?
It¿r Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya
¿He has to be good. The Airline Won't Settle for Less:¿ Gender, Age, and the Trope of the Male Pilot in Advertising
Guilliaume de Syon
Real to Reel: Individuals Aging On and Off the Screen
Helen Mirren and the Media Portrayals of Aging: Women¿s Sexuality Concealed and Revealed
Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pré, and Loretta L. Pecchioni
Hellraiser, Dandy, Eccentric: The Evolving Star Persona of Peter O¿Toole in the 1980s and Beyond
Anna Thompson Hajdik
The Betty White Moment: The Rhetoric of Constructing Aging and Sexuality
Kathleen Turner
The Re-characterization of Age and the Aging Bricoleur: Danny Trejös Reinvention of Aging in Acting
Salvador Jimenez-Murguia
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Descriere
With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that span the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes as our population gets older, this book offers a broad range of readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging.