The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film

Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, Raquel Medina (Herausgeber)

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480 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-21221-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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. Children’s 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. It’s 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 India’s 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. History’s 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 Walker’s 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. Beckett’s 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 Kay’s 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 Huntington’s Disease Memoirs Pramod Nayar

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2025
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	40 b/w images
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-21221-0 / 1350212210
ISBN-13	978-1-350-21221-3 / 9781350212213
Zustand	Neuware