{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-ageing-in-contemporary-literature-and-film-9781350204331","title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Handbook is a most timely contribution to aging studies. It distinguishes itself from others not only because it addresses a wide range of both literary (fiction, drama, and poetry) and film genres (movies, media, TV series, etc.) but also in its encompassing an equally large sample of cultural contexts and case studies, ranging from Europe to Hollywood to Latin America to Japan. Moreover, its intersectional focus allows us to see age as a fundamental yet relational category of analysis, which cannot and should not be separated from gender, sexuality, racialization, class, or functional diversity, amongst others. A must-read to anyone interested in aging, literature and film studies in their broadest sense. Highly recommended! * Professor Josep M. Armengol, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Gender Studies, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain *\u003cbr\u003eCombining theoretically sophisticated discussions of current concepts in Age Studies with comprehensive analyses of a wide range of literary texts and films from different cultural backgrounds, this handbook provides stimulating insights into the ideological construction and embodied experience of ageing. A highly significant publication that convincingly connects scholarly expertise and political awareness. * Professor Dr. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, Professor of German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany *\u003cbr\u003eThis handbook is nothing but foundational for age and ageing studies. Taking stock of 30 years of research, it offers an invaluable state of the art of the discipline with a comprehensive section on genre, and a finely curated segment on themes and concepts. The handbook also manages to make space for what is at the core of humanities-based research, namely in-depth case studies of singular works of art. I am particularly pleased to see an inclusion of non-Western perspectives throughout the handbook. This book is a must-read. * Dr. Anita Wohlmann, Associate Professor of Contemporary Anglophone Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction to the Handbook   I.                    Section One Introduction: Genre 1.                  Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the \u003ci\u003eBildungsroman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret O'Neill\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Michaela Schrage-Früh \u003c\/i\u003e 2.                  Drama: Performing Age, Fighting Ageism \u003ci\u003eValerie Barnes Lipscomb\u003c\/i\u003e 3.                  Ageing in Poetry: A Windfall \u003ci\u003eTess Maginess\u003c\/i\u003e 4.                  Children’s Literature: Young Readers, Older Authors \u003ci\u003eVanessa Joosen\u003c\/i\u003e 5.                  Writing Successful Ageing? The Aches and Pains of Illness Narrative and Life Review \u003ci\u003eMartina Zimmermann\u003c\/i\u003e 6.                  Picturing What Happens at the End:  Graphic Narratives of Ageing and End-of-Life \u003ci\u003eKathleen Venema\u003c\/i\u003e 7.                  Ageing in Science, Speculative and Fantasy Fiction \u003ci\u003eSusan Watkins\u003c\/i\u003e 8.                  Old Age and the Gothic \u003ci\u003eZoe Brennan\u003c\/i\u003e 9.                  Ageing in Crime and Detective Fiction, Film, and Television: Subversion and Protest \u003ci\u003eMarla Harris\u003c\/i\u003e 10.              Serialising Age: Shifting Representations of Ageing and Old Age in TV Series \u003ci\u003eMaricel Oró-Piqueras\u003c\/i\u003e 11.              It’s Never Too Late to Have a Happy Ending: Comedy Film and Ageing \u003ci\u003eHanna Varjakoski\u003c\/i\u003e   II.                  Section Two Introduction: Themes and Concepts in Contemporary Ageing Studies 12.              Feminism, Gender and Age \u003ci\u003eNicole Haring and Roberta Maierhofer\u003c\/i\u003e 13.              Queer Ageing \u003ci\u003eHeather Jeronimo\u003c\/i\u003e 14.              Stars and Protagonists in the Hollywood Conglomerate: Performativities of Hegemonic Masculinity and the Third-Age Imaginary \u003ci\u003eJosephine Dolan \u003c\/i\u003e 15.              Late Style: Rejuvenating the Debate \u003ci\u003eAmir Cohen-Shalev\u003c\/i\u003e         16.              Fallen, Falling, Clinging, and Crawling: The Everyday Age-Effects of Drama and Performance \u003ci\u003eBridie Moore\u003c\/i\u003e 17.              Home Care, Cinema, and the Relational Turn in Age Studies \u003ci\u003eSally Chivers\u003c\/i\u003e 18.              Postcolonial Ageing Studies: Racialization, Resistance, Reimagination \u003ci\u003eEmily Kate Timms\u003c\/i\u003e 19.              Nation and Ageing: Mother India’s Mutable Body \u003ci\u003eIra Raja\u003c\/i\u003e 20.              Ageing in Latin American Cinemas \u003ci\u003eBarbara Zecchi and Raquel Medina\u003c\/i\u003e 21.              Narratives of Old Age and Climate Change: Silver Tsunamis and Rising Tides Anna\u003ci\u003e Kainradl and Ulla Kriebernegg\u003c\/i\u003e 22.              Ageism and Ableism on the Silvering Screen: Entanglements of Disability and Ageing in Films Centred on Dementia \u003ci\u003eHailee M. Yoshizaki-Gibbons\u003c\/i\u003e 23.              The Phenomenology of Frailty: Joan Didion as Case Study \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Barry\u003c\/i\u003e   III.                Section Three Introduction: Case Studies 24.              Dementia in Japanese Cinema: The Family and Rural Nostalgia \u003ci\u003eKatsura Sako\u003c\/i\u003e 25.              Changing the Face of Catalan Theatre: New Portraits of Old Age in Two Contemporary Dramatic Comedies \u003ci\u003eNúria Casado-Gual\u003c\/i\u003e 26.              History’s Intricate Invasions: Ageing and Traumatic Memory in Caribbean Discourse \u003ci\u003ePaula Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e 27.              Ageing in Contemporary Welsh Fiction in English \u003ci\u003eElinor Shepley\u003c\/i\u003e 28.              African American Women and Ageing:  Remembering Afro-Amerindian Ancestors in Alice Walker’s \u003ci\u003eNow is the Time to Open Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSaskia Fürst\u003c\/i\u003e 29.              Contemporary Age Narrative in Aotearoa New Zealand \u003ci\u003ePaola Della Valle\u003c\/i\u003e 30.              Representations of Ageing in Russian Fiction: Between Remembering and Forgetting \u003ci\u003eDagmar Gramshammer-Hohl\u003c\/i\u003e 31.              Beckett’s Radical Exploration of the Vulnerability of Ageing Women in \u003ci\u003eHappy Days \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRockaby Irene de Angelis\u003c\/i\u003e 32.              Affective Oriented Time:  Finitude and Ageing in Jackie Kay’s Border Country \u003ci\u003eMarta Cerezo\u003c\/i\u003e 33.              A Seasoned, Female Robinson Crusoe: Ageing, Solitude, and Resilience in Louise en hiver \u003ci\u003eAagje Swinnen\u003c\/i\u003e 34.              Ageing and Narration in Huntington’s Disease Memoirs \u003ci\u003ePramod Nayar\u003c\/i\u003e  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456052887895,"sku":"9781350204331","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350204331.jpg?v=1755033613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-ageing-in-contemporary-literature-and-film-9781350204331","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}