Serializing Age
Aging and Old Age in TV Series
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Serial Narrative, Temporality and Aging: An Introduction
Seiten 9 - 22 -
Between Screen and Reality: Negotiating the Effects of Old Age and Aging
"Time, Memory, and Aging on the Soaps"
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Business as Usual
Seiten 49 - 68 -
Heroine and/or Caricature?
Seiten 69 - 86 -
Temporality and Aging: Experiments with Magic, Narrative and Genre
"Vampires Don't Age, But Actors Sure Do"
Seiten 89 - 108 -
In the Twilight of Their Lives?
Seiten 109 - 136 -
Wait For It...!
Seiten 137 - 158 -
Serial Cougars
Seiten 159 - 184 -
Sex and Desire Through the Lens of Television Time
Still Looking
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"You've Got Time"
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"I'm Too Old to Pretend Anymore"
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"Blanche and the Younger Man"
Seiten 249 - 266 -
Epilog: The Social and Cultural Relevance of Studying Age in Television
Aging beyond the Rhetoric of Aging
Seiten 269 - 272 -
Contributors
Seiten 273 - 276
2. Dezember 2015, 276 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3276-7
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