Aging heroes : growing old in popular culture / / edited by Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.26 |
Soggetto topico |
Older people in mass media
Older people in popular culture Heroes in mass media |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: on the silver screen: aging heroes in film genres -- Twilight heroes: old age and unfinished business in four "Heartland" films / Cynthia J. Miller -- Golden agers, recluses and John Wayne: aging stereotypes and aging heroes in movie westerns / Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis -- Aaadrriaan! I'll be baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as aging action heroes / Norma Jones -- Under the wide and starry sky: Hollywood and aging astronauts, 1996-2000 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Diversity concerns: sexuality, race and gender. Queering aging? representations of Liberace's intimate life in HBO's Behind the candelabra / Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen -- Overcoming the villainous monster: the beginnings of heroic gay male aging / Dustin Bradley Goltz -- The power of performance: Tyler Perry's Madea as village sage and superwoman / Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo -- "Not bad for an abuela, eh?": the representation of the power of age in Maya & Miguel / Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher -- Babes and crones: women growing old in comics / Caryn E. Neumann -- Being a man? masculinity and aging heroes. Aging masculinity in popular culture: the case of Mad men's Roger Sterling / Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D'Enbeau -- Aging superheroes: retirement and return in Kingdom come and Old man Logan / Nathan Miczo -- Mr. incredible, the man-of-action, the man-of-power: what if he loses it all? / It'r Erhart and Hande Eslen-ziya -- "He has to be good. The airline won't settle for less": gender, age, and the trope of the male pilot in advertising / Guilliaume De Syon -- Real to reel: individuals aging on and off the screen. Helen Mirren and the media portrayals of aging: women's sexuality concealed and revealed / Barbara Cook Overton, Athena Du Pré, and Loretta l. Pecchioni -- Hellraiser, dandy, eccentric: the evolving star persona of Peter O'Toole in the 1980s and beyond / Anna Thompson Hajdik -- The Betty White moment: the rhetoric of constructing aging and sexuality / Kathleen Turner -- The re-characterization of age and the aging bricoleur: Danny Trejo's reinvention of aging in acting / Salvador Jimenez-Murguia. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797272903321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media indentifications / / Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck |
Autore | Rodan Debbie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham Surrey, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.2301/9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EllisKatie <1978->
LebeckPia |
Collana | The cultural politics of media and popular culture |
Soggetto topico |
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
People with disabilities in mass media Obesity in mass media Older people in mass media |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-317-15010-4
1-317-15009-0 1-4094-4052-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Television as a Social Experience; 1 Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 2 Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 3 A Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience; 4 Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity; Part II Identifications; 5 Disability Drama; 6 Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body; 7 Ageing Transformations: Embracing the 'Young-Old' Body; 8 Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463002903321 |
Rodan Debbie
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Farnham Surrey, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media indentifications / / Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck |
Autore | Rodan Debbie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham Surrey, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.2301/9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EllisKatie <1978->
LebeckPia |
Collana | The cultural politics of media and popular culture |
Soggetto topico |
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
People with disabilities in mass media Obesity in mass media Older people in mass media |
ISBN |
1-315-57741-0
1-317-15010-4 1-317-15009-0 1-4094-4052-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Television as a Social Experience; 1 Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 2 Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 3 A Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience; 4 Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity; Part II Identifications; 5 Disability Drama; 6 Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body; 7 Ageing Transformations: Embracing the 'Young-Old' Body; 8 Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787631603321 |
Rodan Debbie
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Farnham Surrey, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disability, obesity and ageing : popular media indentifications / / Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis and Pia Lebeck |
Autore | Rodan Debbie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham Surrey, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.2301/9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
EllisKatie <1978->
LebeckPia |
Collana | The cultural politics of media and popular culture |
Soggetto topico |
Identity (Psychology) and mass media
People with disabilities in mass media Obesity in mass media Older people in mass media |
ISBN |
1-315-57741-0
1-317-15010-4 1-317-15009-0 1-4094-4052-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Television as a Social Experience; 1 Introduction: Renegotiating Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 2 Tacit Knowledge: Cultural Representations of Disability, Obesity and Ageing; 3 A Marketplace of Ideas: Television as a Social Experience; 4 Audience Activity: Identification, Disidentification and Online Activity; Part II Identifications; 5 Disability Drama; 6 Obesity Makeover: Rejecting the Obese Body; 7 Ageing Transformations: Embracing the 'Young-Old' Body; 8 Conclusion: Beyond the Water-Cooler; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820285503321 |
Rodan Debbie
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Farnham Surrey, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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