Elder Horror

Essays on Film's Frightening Images of Aging
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7537-4
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 489 g

As the baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, the elderly are often eccentric harbingers of doom—the crone who seeks to restore her vitality, the pensioners who bargain with the supernatural to cheat death, the ancient ancestors who haunt the living.

This collection of new essays explores how various filmic portrayals of aging—as an inescapable horror destined to overtake us all, as a terrifying time of reckoning with the past, as a portal to unimaginable powers—reflect our complex attitudes towards the elderly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Cynthia J.

Riper, A. Bowdoin Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focussing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of over a dozen scholarly volumes, many of which explore the horror genre.

A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.