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001 2014049733
003 DLC
005 20151120081545.0
008 150128s2015 mdu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014049733
020 $a9781442250062 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9781442250079 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aP94.5.A38$bA55 2015
082 00 $a305.26$223
245 00 $aAging heroes :$bgrowing old in popular culture /$cedited by Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor.
263 $a1505
264 1 $aLanham, Maryland :$bRowman & Littlefield,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: on the silver screen: aging heroes in film genres -- Twilight heroes: old age and unfinished business in four "Heartland" films / Cynthia J. Miller -- Golden agers, recluses and John Wayne: aging stereotypes and aging heroes in movie westerns / Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis -- Aaadrriaan! I'll be baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as aging action heroes / Norma Jones -- Under the wide and starry sky: Hollywood and aging astronauts, 1996-2000 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Diversity concerns: sexuality, race and gender. Queering aging? representations of Liberace's intimate life in HBO's Behind the candelabra / Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen -- Overcoming the villainous monster: the beginnings of heroic gay male aging / Dustin Bradley Goltz -- The power of performance: Tyler Perry's Madea as village sage and superwoman / Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo -- "Not bad for an abuela, eh?": the representation of the power of age in Maya & Miguel / Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher -- Babes and crones: women growing old in comics / Caryn E. Neumann -- Being a man? masculinity and aging heroes. Aging masculinity in popular culture: the case of Mad men's Roger Sterling / Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D'Enbeau -- Aging superheroes: retirement and return in Kingdom come and Old man Logan / Nathan Miczo -- Mr. incredible, the man-of-action, the man-of-power: what if he loses it all? / It'r Erhart and Hande Eslen-ziya -- "He has to be good. The airline won't settle for less": gender, age, and the trope of the male pilot in advertising / Guilliaume De Syon -- Real to reel: individuals aging on and off the screen. Helen Mirren and the media portrayals of aging: women's sexuality concealed and revealed / Barbara Cook Overton, Athena Du Pré, and Loretta l. Pecchioni -- Hellraiser, dandy, eccentric: the evolving star persona of Peter O'Toole in the 1980s and beyond / Anna Thompson Hajdik -- The Betty White moment: the rhetoric of constructing aging and sexuality / Kathleen Turner -- The re-characterization of age and the aging bricoleur: Danny Trejo's reinvention of aging in acting / Salvador Jimenez-Murguia.
650 0 $aOlder people in mass media.
650 0 $aOlder people in popular culture.
650 0 $aHeroes in mass media.
700 1 $aJones, Norma,$d1972-$eeditor.
700 1 $aBatchelor, Bob,$eeditor.