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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor - Contributions by 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; Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 GenresTwilight Heroes: Old Age and Unfinished Business in Four "Heartland" FilmsCynthia J. MillerGolden Agers, Recluses and John Wayne: Aging Stereotypes and Aging Heroes in Movie WesternsMei-Chen Lin and Paul HaridakisAAADRRIAAN! I'll Be Baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as Aging Action HeroesNorma JonesUnder the Wide and Starry Sky: Hollywood and Aging Astronauts, 1996-2000A. Bowdoin Van RiperDiversity Concerns: Sexuality, Race and GenderQueering Aging? Representations of Liberace's Intimate Life in HBO's Behind the CandelabraGust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace AllenOvercoming the Villainous Monster: The Beginnings of Heroic Gay Male AgingDustin Bradley GoltzThe Power of Performance: Tyler Perry's Madea as Village Sage and SuperwomanCarlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo"Not bad for an abuela, eh?" The representation of the power of age in Maya & MiguelEmily S. Kinsky and Amanda GallagherBabes and Crones: Women Growing Old in ComicsCaryn E. NeumannBeing a Man? Masculinity and Aging HeroesAging Masculinity in Popular Culture: The Case of Mad Men's Roger SterlingPatrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D'EnbeauAging Superheroes: Retirement and Return in Kingdom Come and Old Man LoganNathan MiczoMr. 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 AdvertisingGuilliaume de SyonReal to Reel: Individuals Aging On and Off the Screen Helen Mirren and the Media Portrayals of Aging: Women's Sexuality Concealed and RevealedBarbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pré, and Loretta L. PecchioniHellraiser, Dandy, Eccentric: The Evolving Star Persona of Peter O'Toole in the 1980s and BeyondAnna Thompson HajdikThe Betty White Moment: The Rhetoric of Constructing Aging and SexualityKathleen TurnerThe Re-characterization of Age and the Aging Bricoleur: Danny Trejo's Reinvention of Aging in ActingSalvador Jimenez-MurguiaIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors...
