Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing

Freeze Frame
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-58090-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 283 g

This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jermyn, Deborah

Holmes, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – A Timely Intervention – Unravelling the Gender/Age/Celebrity Matrix; Deborah Jermyn & Su Holmes
1. Here, there and nowhere: ageing, gender and Celebrity Studies; Su Holmes & Deborah Jermyn
2. Reconfiguring Elinor Glyn: Ageing female experience and the origins of the ' 'It Girl ' '; Karen Randell & Alexis Weedon
3. Bette Davis: Acting and not Acting her Age; Martin Shingler
4. Moms Mabley and Whoopi Goldberg: age, comedy and celebrity; Sadie Wearing
5. ' 'Je joue le rôle d ' 'une petite vieille, rondouillarde et bavarde, qui raconte sa vie... ' ' [ ' 'I am playing the role of a little old lady, pleasantly plump and talkative, who is telling the story of her life… ' ']: The significance of Agnès Varda ' 's old lady on screen; Rona Murray
6. Ageing Grace/Fully: Grace Jones and the Queering of the Diva; Nathalie Weidhase
7. From the woman who ' 'had it all ' ' to the tragic, ageing spinster: the shifting star persona of JenniferAniston; Susan Berridge
8. ' 'Don ' 't wear beige – it might kill you ' ': The politics of ageing and visibility in Fabulous Fashionistas; Deborah Jermyn
9. The best exotic graceful ager: Dame Judi Dench and older female celebrity; Melanie Williams
10. ' 'I ' 'm Not Past My Sell By Date Yet! ' ': Sarah Jane ' 's Adventures in Postfeminist Rejuvenation and the Later Life Celebrity of Elisabeth Sladen; Hannah Hamad
11. ' 'Call the celebrity ' ': Voicing the experience of women and ageing through the distinctive vocal presence of Vanessa Redgrave; Ros Jennings & Eva Krainitzki

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah Jermyn is Reader in Film and Television at the University of Roehampton, UK. She has published widely on women, ageing and the media, including articles in CineAction; Critical Studies in Television and Celebrity Studies, and is the editor of Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight (2013). 
Su Holmes is Reader in Television at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of numerous articles on celebrity and the co-editor of Framing Celebrity (2006); Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader (2007), and In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011).