Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults. Focusing on three representative sitcoms - Waiting for God, The Old Guys and Vicious - it demonstrates the ways in which sitcoms specifically enable and restrict representations of later life sexualities. Tracing how transgressive portrayals of sexually active older adults are couched in comedic terms, it opens up new critical perspectives on later life sexualities that will critically inform public debates and academic research - in Britain and beyond.>

About the author

Franziska Röber is Research Associate at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Franziska Rber, Franziska Röber
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9781350473508
• ISBN: 978-1-350-47350-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Comedy, Psychology of ageing, Performing arts: comedy, Film, television, radio genres: Comedy and humour