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Elder horror : essays on films frightening images of aging /
As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as either eccentric harbingers of doom--the crone who stops at nothing to restore her youth, the ancient ancesto...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
[2019]
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Elder horror : |b essays on films frightening images of aging / |c edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction (Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper); I. Victims No More; "Ask not what your rest home can do for you": Self-Agency and Public Service in Bubba Ho-Tep (Philip L. Simpson); Panic in Detroit: Don't Breathe and the Fear of old Cities, Homes and Men (Isaac Rooks); "It's the work of a crazy old woman": Revenge of the Elderly in The Devil-Doll (Martin F. Norden); From Beneficent Elderly to Vile M'others: Familial Relations and Cannibalism in Troma's Rabid Grannies (1988) (Steve J. Webley); II. Aesthetics of Decay | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Shock of Aging (Women) in Horror Film (Dawn Keetley)"To Grandmother's house we go": Documenting the Horror of the Aging Woman in Found Footage Films (Maddi McGillvray); "More like music": Aging, Abjection and Dementia at the Overlook Hotel (Sue Matheson); The Skeleton Key, The Southern Gothic and the Uncanny Decay of Teleological History (Jessica Balanzategui); III. Elders as Others/Outsiders; Making the Hard Choices: The Economics of Damnation in Drag Me to Hell (Cynthia J. Miller) | |
| 505 | 8 | |a "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the ugliest of them all?" The Elderly as "Other" in Countess Dracula (Jennifer Richards)Old and in the Way Torments of the Aging Male in Psycho II (Hans Staats); The Limits of "Sundowning": M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit and the Horror of the Aging Body (Stephanie M. Flint); IV. Fighting Back Time; "The powers of time can be altered": The Ambiguities of Aging in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) (Thomas Prasch); "You can be young forever": The dread of Aging in Tony Scott's Art-Horror Film The Hunger (James J. Ward) | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Brittle Body: The Elderly and Cars in The Brotherhood of Satan (Brian Brems)The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story (Karen J. Renner); V. What the Old Folks Know; Disturbing the Past: Horror and Historical Memory in Ghost Story (1981) (A. Bowdoin Van Riper); Becoming Dr. Caligari (Robert B. Luehrs); "Some kind of special": Queering Death Through Elder/Child Relationships in The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (Olivia Oliver-Hopkins); Flowers in the Attic: The Elderly as Monster (Liam T. Webb); About the Contributors; Index | |
| 520 | |a As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as either eccentric harbingers of doom--the crone who stops at nothing to restore her youth, the ancient ancestor who haunts the living--or as frail victims. This collection of new essays explores how various filmic portrayals of aging, as an inescapable horror destined to overtake us all, reflect our complex attitudes toward growing old, along with its social, psychological and economic consequences. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Aging in motion pictures. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mass media and older people. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Older people in mass media. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Vieillissement au cinéma. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Médias et personnes âgées. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Personnes âgées dans les médias. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Aging in motion pictures |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Mass media and older people |2 fast | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Miller, Cynthia J., |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, |e editor. | |
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