The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has ''come of age'': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic ''problem'' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.>

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• Authors: Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, Raquel Medina
• Assisted by: Sarah Falcus (Editor), Falcus Sarah (Editor), Heike Hartung (Editor), Hartung Heike (Editor), Raquel Medina (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9781350212213
• ISBN: 978-1-350-21221-3
• No. of pages: 474
• Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Films, cinema, Psychology of ageing, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000