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This collection of original articles sits at the intersection of two interdisciplinary fields: media studies and aging studies. Drawing on both scholarly literatures, we explore the reciprocal influences of aging and mediation in the realms of music, television, celebrity, fandom, social media, film, and advertising/marketing, among others.
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Contents
Introduction
1. New Areas of Inquiry in Aging, Media, and Culture - C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby and Anthony R. Bardo
Section I. Advertising and Marketing
2. Aspiration and Compromise: Portrayals of Older Adults in Television Advertising - Shyon Baumann and Kim de Laat
3. Forever Young: The New Aging Consumer in the Marketplace - Anne L. Balazs
Section II. Age Identities
4. Reflections of Old Age, Constructions of Aging Selves: Drawing Links between Media Images and Views of Aging - Anne E. Barrett, Alex Raphael, and Justine Gunderson
5. Age and Gender in Film and Television: The Case of Huong Hoang - Anthony R. Bardo
Section III. Celebrity
6. Growing Old in Celebrity Culture - Hilde Van den Bulck
7. Social Meaning of Celebrities in the Everyday Lives of Nursing Home Residents: An Exploratory Study - Nathalie Claessens
Section IV. Music
8. Music, Performance and Generation: The Making of Boomer Rock and Roll Biographies - Stephen Katz
9. "The Long Strange Trip" Continues: Aging Deadheads - Rebecca G. Adams, and Justin T. Harmon
Section V. Fandom
10. A Life Course Perspective on Fandom - C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby
11. Breaking Dusk: Fandom, Gender/Age Intersectionality, and the "Twilight Moms" - Christine Scodari
Section VI. Gender and Sexuality
12. "Let's do it Like Grown-Ups": A Filmic Mènage of Age, Gender, and Sexuality - Leni Marshall and Aagje Swinnen
13. Sexualizing the Third Age - Barbara L. Marshall
Section VII. Social/New Media
14. Learning New Tricks: The Use of Social Media in Later Life - Kelly Quinn
15. Polite Pigs and Emotional Elves: Age in Digital Worlds - Rosa Mikeal Martey
Afterwords
16. "Time to Grow Up": The Study of Media and Aging as a Field in its Infancy - Cornel Sandvoss
17. A View from Gerontology - Merril Silverstein
