Ageing femininity on film: the older woman in contemporary cinema
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 107747_84427
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- I B Tauris
- ISBN
- 9781784532802
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Interrogating the concept of ‘successful ageing’, Ageing Femininity on Screen analyses the representation of older female characters in a variety of recent age-affirmative film and media fiction texts. This 80,000-word, interdisciplinary study combines critical approaches from film studies, acting and performance studies, celebrity studies and cultural studies to develop recent work in cultural gerontology. Developing critical paradigms from feminism, queer theory and trans studies, Ageing Femininity on Screen formulates how techniques of ‘age camp’, ‘age drag’ and ‘greywashing’ can challenge ageist stereotypes, the gendered natured of gerontophobia and promote a sensibility of ‘successful ageing’ on screen.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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