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Fade to gray : aging in American cinema /

"Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In many popular films, older characters fade into irrelevance, inactivity, or absurdity, or else they stay in the background as wise elders while youn...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Shary, Timothy, 1967- (Autor), McVittie, Nancy, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; The Study of Aging in Cinema; Filmograph y and Terminolo gy; 1. Generational Conflict in Prewar Hollywood Film; Elder Depictions in Early Cinema and the Silent Era; The Neediest among Us; Solid Pilla rs in Unstable Times; Elders in the Nuclear Era; 2. The Sensational Specter of Aging; An Audience Lost; The Formation of "Adult Films"; Co mpeting for the Adult Market; Gender and Generation in Melod rama; 3. The Horrific and the Hilarious; The Horror of Aging; Elder Explo itation in Yo uth Films; Elder Kitsch at Its Limits 
505 8 |a 4. The Emergence of the Elder OdysseyThe Road to a Subgenre of Penultimate Quests; The Elder Odyssey in Expa nsion; Investigating and Evading; The Road from Here; 5. The Repression and Releaseof Old Romance; The May-December Ro mance as a Genre Device; Calmly Increasing Honesty; Elder Ro mance Matures; The Life Left in Love; 6. Deceptions and Delusions of Elder Death; Early Elder Death; Death Gets Darker; Elder Legacies; Conclusion; Appendix A. Filmography of Significant Elder Roles in American Cinema; Appendix B. Subject Lists of Elder Films; Notes; Bibliography; Index 
520 |a "Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In many popular films, older characters fade into irrelevance, inactivity, or absurdity, or else they stay in the background as wise elders while younger characters provide the action. Most American films do not attempt to portray the rich variety of experiences or the sensitive aging issues that people confront in the years beyond fifty. Fade to Gray offers one of the first extended studies of the portrayal of older people in American cinema from the silent era to the present. Writing in an accessible style for both general audiences and scholars, Timothy Shary and Nancy McVittie examine social attitudes toward aging through an analysis of hundreds of individual films, including such classics as You Can't Take It With You (1938), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Nebraska (2013). They show how representations of the aging process and depictions of older people embracing or enduring the various experiences of longer lives have evolved over the past century, as well as how film industry practices have both reflected and influenced perceptions of aging in American society. Exposing the social and political motivations for negative cinematic portrayals of the elderly, Fade to Gray also gives visibility to films that provide opportunities for better understanding and appreciation of the aged and the aging process."--Back cover. 
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