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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This Handbook is a most timely contribution to aging studies. It distinguishes itself from others not only because it addresses a wide range of both literary (fiction, drama, and poetry) and film genres (movies, media, TV series, etc.) but also in its encompassing an equally large sample of cultural contexts and case studies, ranging from Europe to Hollywood to Latin America to Japan. Moreover, its intersectional focus allows us to see age as a fundamental yet relational category of analysis, which cannot and should not be separated from gender, sexuality, racialization, class, or functional diversity, amongst others. A must-read to anyone interested in aging, literature and film studies in their broadest sense. Highly recommended! * Professor Josep M. Armengol, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Gender Studies, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Combining theoretically sophisticated discussions of current concepts in Age Studies with comprehensive analyses of a wide range of literary texts and films from different cultural backgrounds, this handbook provides stimulating insights into the ideological construction and embodied experience of ageing. A highly significant publication that convincingly connects scholarly expertise and political awareness. * Professor Dr. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, Professor of German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany * This handbook is nothing but foundational for age and ageing studies. Taking stock of 30 years of research, it offers an invaluable state of the art of the discipline with a comprehensive section on genre, and a finely curated segment on themes and concepts. The handbook also manages to make space for what is at the core of humanities-based research, namely in-depth case studies of singular works of art. I am particularly pleased to see an inclusion of non-Western perspectives throughout the handbook. This book is a must-read. * Dr. Anita Wohlmann, Associate Professor of Contemporary Anglophone Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *
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This handbook will provide a concise introduction to how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavour of Age(ing) Studies has shaped literary and film studies across cultures.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction to the Handbook
I. Section One
Introduction: Genre
1. Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the Bildungsroman
Margaret O'Neill
and Michaela Schrage-Früh
2. Drama: Performing Age, Fighting Ageism Valerie Barnes
Lipscomb
3. Ageing in Poetry: A Windfall Tess Maginess
4. Childrens Literature: Young Readers, Older Authors
Vanessa Joosen
5. Writing Successful Ageing? The Aches and Pains of Illness
Narrative and Life Review Martina Zimmermann
6. Picturing What Happens at the End: Graphic Narratives of
Ageing and End-of-Life Kathleen Venema
7. Ageing in Science, Speculative and Fantasy Fiction Susan
Watkins
8. Old Age and the Gothic Zoe Brennan
9. Ageing in Crime and Detective Fiction, Film, and
Television: Subversion and Protest Marla Harris
10. Serialising Age: Shifting Representations of Ageing and Old
Age in TV Series Maricel Oró-Piqueras
11. Its Never Too Late to Have a Happy Ending: Comedy Film and
Ageing Hanna Varjakoski
II. Section Two
Introduction: Themes and Concepts in Contemporary Ageing Studies
12. Feminism, Gender and Age Nicole Haring and Roberta
Maierhofer
13. Queer Ageing Heather Jeronimo
14. Stars and Protagonists in the Hollywood Conglomerate:
Performativities of Hegemonic Masculinity and the Third-Age Imaginary
Josephine Dolan
15. Late Style: Rejuvenating the Debate Amir Cohen-Shalev
16. Fallen, Falling, Clinging, and Crawling: The Everyday
Age-Effects of Drama and Performance Bridie Moore
17. Home Care, Cinema, and the Relational Turn in Age Studies
Sally Chivers
18. Postcolonial Ageing Studies: Racialization, Resistance,
Reimagination Emily Kate Timms
19. Nation and Ageing: Mother Indias Mutable Body Ira Raja
20. Ageing in Latin American Cinemas Barbara Zecchi and Raquel
Medina
21. Narratives of Old Age and Climate Change: Silver Tsunamis
and Rising Tides Anna Kainradl and Ulla Kriebernegg
22. Ageism and Ableism on the Silvering Screen: Entanglements of
Disability and Ageing in Films Centred on Dementia Hailee M.
Yoshizaki-Gibbons
23. The Phenomenology of Frailty: Joan Didion as Case Study
Elizabeth Barry
III. Section Three
Introduction: Case Studies
24. Dementia in Japanese Cinema: The Family and Rural Nostalgia
Katsura Sako
25. Changing the Face of Catalan Theatre: New Portraits of Old
Age in Two Contemporary Dramatic Comedies Núria Casado-Gual
26. Historys Intricate Invasions: Ageing and Traumatic Memory
in Caribbean Discourse Paula Morgan
27. Ageing in Contemporary Welsh Fiction in English Elinor
Shepley
28. African American Women and Ageing: Remembering
Afro-Amerindian Ancestors in Alice Walkers Now is the Time to Open Your
Heart Saskia Fürst
29. Contemporary Age Narrative in Aotearoa New Zealand Paola
Della Valle
30. Representations of Ageing in Russian Fiction: Between
Remembering and Forgetting Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl
31. Becketts Radical Exploration of the Vulnerability of Ageing
Women in Happy Days and Rockaby Irene de Angelis
32. Affective Oriented Time: Finitude and Ageing in Jackie
Kays Border Country Marta Cerezo
33. A Seasoned, Female Robinson Crusoe: Ageing, Solitude, and
Resilience in Louise en hiver Aagje Swinnen
34. Ageing and Narration in Huntingtons Disease Memoirs Pramod
Nayar
Index
Sarah Falcus is a a Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of Huddersfield. She is the co-author (with Katsura Sako) of Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics and is the Primary Collaborator on the project 'Ageing and Illness in British and Japanese Children's Picturebooks 1950-2000: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives', funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is also the co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network. https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/sarah-falcus
Heike Hartung has published widely in interdisciplinary ageing studies. Recent publications include Ageing, Gender and Illness in Anglophone Literature and Embodied Narration. She is a founding member of the European Network in Ageing Studies and co-editor of the Transcript Aging Studies publication series. http://www.heikehartung.de/en/
Raquel Medina is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Studies at Aston University, UK. She has published numerous articles and chapters on representations of ageing in film, fiction and non-fiction narrative, and poetry. She is the author of Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer's Disease and the Director of the International Research Network CinemAGEnder, and co-director of Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network. https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/raquel-medina
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