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The silvering screen : old age and disability in cinema /

Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role on screen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chivers, Sally, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The silvering screen
  • Same difference? : gerontology and disability studies join hands
  • Baby Jane grew up: the horror of aging in mid-twentieth-century Hollywood
  • Grey matters: dementia, cognitive difference, and the 'guilty demographic' on screen
  • 'Sounds like a regular marriage' : monogamy and the fidelity of care
  • Yes, we still can: Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, aging masculinity, and the American dream
  • As old as Jack gets: Nicholson, masculinity, and the Hollywood system
  • Final films, the silvering screen comes of age.