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Aging Heroes

Growing Old in Popular Culture

von: Norma Jones, Bob Batchelor, Jace Allen, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Guillaume de Syon, Suzy D'Enbeau, Athena du Pré, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Amanda Gallagher, Dustin Bradley Goltz, Paul Haridakis, Salvador Jiménez Murguía, Emily S. Kinsky, Ryan M. Lescure, Mei-Chen Lin, Nathan Miczo, Cynthia J. Miller, Carlos D. Morrison, Caryn E. Neumann, Ayoleke David Okeowo, Barbara Cook Overton, Loretta L. Pecchioni, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, Kathleen M. Turner, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Gust A. Yep
82,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	06.05.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781442250079
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	268

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Titelbeschreibung

Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality. More importantly, these stereotypes influence the daily lives of aging adults, as well as how younger generations perceive and interact with older individuals. In light of our graying population and the growing diversity of portrayals of older characters in popular culture, it is important to examine how we understand aging. In Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture, Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor present a collection of essays that address the increasing presence of characters that simultaneously manifest and challenge the accepted stereotypes of aging. The contributors to this volume explore representations in television programs, comic books, theater, and other forms of media. The chapters include examinations of aging male and female actors who take on leading roles in such movies as Gran Torino, Grudge Match, Escape Plan, Space Cowboys, Taken, and The Big Lebowski as well as TheExpendables, Red, and X-Men franchises. Other chapters address perceptions of masculinity, sexuality, gender, and race as manifested by such cultural icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, Danny Trejo, Helen Mirren, Betty White, Liberace, and Tyler Perry’s Madea. With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that encompass the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes, this book offers a broader range of new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging. Aging Heroes will be of interest to scholars of film, television, gender studies, women’s studies, sociology, aging studies, and media studies, as well as to general readers.

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?
 
Itır 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 Trejo’s Reinvention of Aging in Acting
 
Salvador Jimenez-Murguia
 

 
Index
 
About the Editors and Contributors

Autorenportrait

Norma Jones is the coeditor of Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture and Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). Bob Batchelor, a noted cultural historian, is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including: The 1900s, The 1980s, The 2000s, American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade (4 volumes); John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013); and Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). Batchelor is founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal and editor of the Contemporary American Literature series published by Rowman & Littlefield.