UID:
almafu_9958356441002883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9783839432761
Series Statement:
Aging Studies ; 7
Content:
Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing practices and new media technologies have resulted in complex television narratives, in which experimental temporalities and revisions of narrative linearity and chronological time have become key features. As the first of its kind, this volume investigates how TV series as a powerful cultural medium shape representations of age and aging, such as in »Orange Is The New Black«, »The Wire« or »Desperate Housewives«, to understand what it means to live in time.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Serial Narrative, Temporality and Aging: An Introduction --
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Between Screen and Reality: Negotiating the Effects of Old Age and Aging --
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“Time, Memory, and Aging on the Soaps” --
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Business as Usual: Retirement on The Wire --
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Heroine and/or Caricature?: The Older Woman in Desperate Housewives --
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Temporality and Aging: Experiments with Magic, Narrative and Genre --
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“Vampires Don’t Age, But Actors Sure Do”: The Cult of Youth and the Paradox of Aging in Buffy the Vampire Slayer --
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In the Twilight of Their Lives?: Magical Objects as Serial Devices and Catalysts of Aging in The Twilight Zone --
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Wait For It...!: Temporality, Maturing, and the Depiction of Life Concepts in How I Met Your Mother --
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Serial Cougars: Representations of a Non-Normative Lifestyle in a Sitcom, an Episodic Serial, and a Soap Opera --
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Sex and Desire Through the Lens of Television Time --
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Still Looking: Temporality and Gay Aging in US Television --
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“You’ve Got Time”: Ageing and Queer Temporality in Orange is the New Black --
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“I’m Too Old to Pretend Anymore”: Desire, Ageing and Last Tango in Halifax --
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“Blanche and the Younger Man”: Age Mimicry and the Ambivalence of Laughter in The Golden Girls --
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Epilog: The Social and Cultural Relevance of Studying Age in Television --
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Aging beyond the Rhetoric of Aging --
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Contributors
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.14361/9783839432761
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839432761
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