The Silvering Screen

Author : Sally Chivers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442661981

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The Silvering Screen by Sally Chivers Pdf

Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. 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 Schmidt, where aging is a central theme. The first-ever sustained discussion of old age in cinema, The Silvering Screen brings together theories from disability studies, critical gerontology, and cultural studies, to examine how the film industry has linked old age with physical and mental disability. Sally Chivers further examines Hollywood's mixed messages - the applauding of actors who portray the debilitating side of aging, while promoting a culture of youth - as well as the gendering of old age on film. The Silvering Screen makes a timely attempt to counter the fear of aging implicit in these readings by proposing alternate ways to value getting older.

Author : Valerie Raoul
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780889205093

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Unfitting Stories by Valerie Raoul Pdf

Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of perspectives. Bringing together the work of Canadian researchers, health professionals, and people with lived experiences of disease, disability, or trauma, it addresses central issues about authority in medical and personal narratives and the value of cross- or interdisciplinary research in understanding such experiences. The book considers the aesthetic dimensions of health-related stories with literary readings that look at how personal accounts of disease, disability, and trauma are crafted by writers and filmmakers into published works. Topics range from psychiatric hospitalization and aestheticizing cancer, to father-daughter incest in film. The collection also deals with the therapeutic or transformative effect of stories with essays about men, sport, and spinal cord injury; narrative teaching at L’Arche (a faith-based network of communities inclusive of people with developmental disabilities); and the construction of a “schizophrenic” identity. A final section examines the polemical functions of narrative, directing attention to the professional and political contexts within which stories are constructed and exchanged. Topics include ableist limits on self-narration; drug addiction and the disease model; and narratives of trauma and Aboriginal post-secondary students. Unfitting Stories is essential reading for researchers using narrative methods or materials, for teachers, students, and professionals working in the field of health services, and for concerned consumers of the health care system. It deals with practical problems relevant to policy-makers as well as theoretical issues of interest to specialists in bioethics, gender analysis, and narrative theory. Read the chapter “Social Trauma and Serial Autobiography: Healing and Beyond” by Bina Freiwald on the Concordia University Library Spectrum Research Repository website.

Author : Katz, Stephen
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335962

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Ageing in Everyday Life by Katz, Stephen Pdf

Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, public and private spaces, older drivers, media representations, dementia care, health-tracking, dress and sexuality. This focus on micro-sociological conditions allows us to rethink key questions which have shaped debates in the social aspects of ageing. International contributions, including from the UK, USA, Sweden and Canada, provide a critical guide to inform thinking and planning our ageing futures.

Author : Ágnes Györke,Tamás Juhász
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789462703940

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Urban Culture and the Modern City by Ágnes Györke,Tamás Juhász Pdf

When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature, the arts, and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The case studies situate Hungarian urban culture within the global flow of ideas as they explore the period of modernism, the mid-century, and the post-1989 era in a context that moves well beyond the borders of the country.

Author : Josephine Dolan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137584021

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Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age' by Josephine Dolan Pdf

This book is the first to explore ‘old age’ in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies. It takes its cue from the dual meanings of ‘silvering’ – economics and ageing – and explores shifting formulations of ‘old age’ and gender in contemporary cinema. Broad in its scope, the book establishes the importance of silver audiences to the survival of cinema exhibition while also forging connections between the pleasures of ‘old age’ films, consumer culture, the ‘economy of celebrity’ and the gendered silvering of stardom. The chapters examine gendered genres such as romantic comedies, action and heist movies, the prosthetics of costume, and CGI enabled age transformations. Through this analysis, Josephine Dolan teases out the different meanings of ageing masculinity and femininity offered in contemporary cinema. She identifies ageing femininity as the pathologised target of rejuvenation while masculine ageing is seen to enhance an enduring youthfulness. This book has interdisciplinary appeal and will engage scholars interested in ‘old age’ and gender representations in contemporary cinema.

Author : Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350204355

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film by Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina Pdf

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Author : Thomas R. Cole,Nathan S. Carlin,Ronald A. Carson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015623

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Medical Humanities by Thomas R. Cole,Nathan S. Carlin,Ronald A. Carson Pdf

This textbook uses concepts and methods of the humanities to enhance understanding of medicine and health care.

Author : Jeffrey Berman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350166585

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The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir by Jeffrey Berman Pdf

Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis of care narratives to inform and inspire ideas about this major role in life. Alongside analysis of narratives drawn from literature and film, the author sensitively interweaves the story of his wife's illness and care to illuminate perspectives on dealing with human decline. Examining texts from a diverse range of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton and Alice Munro, and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Michael Haneke, it addresses questions such as why caregiving is a dangerous activity, the ethical problems of writing about caregiving, the challenges of reading about caregiving, and why caregiving is so important. It serves as a fire starter on the subject of how we can gain insight into the challenges and opportunities of caregiving through the creative arts.

Author : Jacqueline Warwick,Allison Adrian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317424611

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Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music by Jacqueline Warwick,Allison Adrian Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores the girl’s voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girls’ online media culture. While girls’ voices are more prominent than ever in popular music culture, the specific sonic character of the young female voice is routinely denied authority. Decades old clichés of girls as frivolous, silly, and deserving of contempt prevail in mainstream popular image and sound. Nevertheless, girls find ways to raise their voices and make themselves heard. This volume explores the contemporary girl’s voice to illuminate the way ideals of girlhood are historically specific, and the way adults frame and construct girlhood to both valorize and vilify girls and women. Interrogating popular music, childhood, and gender, it analyzes the history of the all-girl band from the Runaways to the present; the changing anatomy of a girl’s voice throughout adolescence; girl’s participatory culture via youtube and rock camps, and representations of the girl’s voice in other media like audiobooks, film, and television. Essays consider girl performers like Jackie Evancho and Lorde, and all-girl bands like Sleater Kinney, The Slits and Warpaint, as well as performative 'girlishness' in the voices of female vocalists like Joni Mitchell, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Kathleen Hanna, and Rebecca Black. Participating in girl studies within and beyond the field of music, this book unites scholarly perspectives from disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, comparative literature, women’s and gender studies, media studies, and education to investigate the importance of girls’ voices in popular music, and to help unravel the complexities bound up in music and girlhood in the contemporary contexts of North America and the United Kingdom.

Author : Lester D. Friedman,David Desser
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813586045

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Tough Ain't Enough by Lester D. Friedman,David Desser Pdf

Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal Hollywood. At Eastwood’s late age, his critical success as actor and director, his combative willingness to confront serious cultural issues in his films, and his undeniable talent behind the camera all call for a new and comprehensive study that considers and contextualizes his multiple roles, both on and off screen. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars that explore the actor-director’s extensive career. The result is a far-reaching and nuanced portrait of one of America’s most prolific and thoughtful filmmakers.

Author : Tony Tracy,Michaela Schrage-Früh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000830149

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Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema by Tony Tracy,Michaela Schrage-Früh Pdf

This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema. With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the primarily European focus of the book is juxtaposed with analysis of the social and cultural constructions of manhood and the "anti-ageing" impulses of male stardom in contemporary Hollywood. These themes are inflected in different ways throughout the volume, from considering how old age is not the monolithic and unified life stage with which it is often framed, to exploring issues of queerness, sexuality, and asexuality, as well as themes such as national cinema and dementia. Offering a diverse and multifaceted portrait of ageing and masculinity in contemporary cinema, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film and screen studies, gender and masculinity studies, and cultural gerontology.

Author : Joel Gwynne,Niall Richardson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030400644

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Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema by Joel Gwynne,Niall Richardson Pdf

Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema. While such relationships have historically operated within the framework of heteronormativity, and have usually explored cross generational romance in the context of older men/younger women, contemporary depictions have expanded to focus also on taboo configurations of love between older women and younger men and cross generational LGBT coupledom. Contemporary depictions have sought to complicate not only heteronormativity in cross generational relationships, but also to navigate the differences between socially acceptable love and transgressive desire. This collection focuses on the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships and addresses the often divisive relationship between the discourses of youth and ageing in popular culture.

Author : A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476635071

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Elder Horror by A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1936-07
Category : Engineering
ISBN : IOWA:31858044978181

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Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electricity
ISBN : NYPL:33433110095191

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Journal by Anonim Pdf

Includes annual report of its council (1941-48, in pt. 1).