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Serializing Age : Aging and Old Age in TV Series / ed. by Anita Wohlmann, Maricel Oró-Piqueras.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aging Studies ; 7Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783837632767
  • 9783839432761
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Serial Narrative, Temporality and Aging: An Introduction -- Between Screen and Reality: Negotiating the Effects of Old Age and Aging -- “Time, Memory, and Aging on the Soaps” -- Business as Usual -- Heroine and/or Caricature? -- Temporality and Aging: Experiments with Magic, Narrative and Genre -- “Vampires Don’t Age, But Actors Sure Do” -- In the Twilight of Their Lives? -- Wait For It...! -- Serial Cougars -- Sex and Desire Through the Lens of Television Time -- Still Looking -- “You’ve Got Time” -- “I’m Too Old to Pretend Anymore” -- “Blanche and the Younger Man” -- Epilog: The Social and Cultural Relevance of Studying Age in Television -- Aging beyond the Rhetoric of Aging -- Contributors
Summary: 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 -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Serial Narrative, Temporality and Aging: An Introduction -- Between Screen and Reality: Negotiating the Effects of Old Age and Aging -- “Time, Memory, and Aging on the Soaps” -- Business as Usual -- Heroine and/or Caricature? -- Temporality and Aging: Experiments with Magic, Narrative and Genre -- “Vampires Don’t Age, But Actors Sure Do” -- In the Twilight of Their Lives? -- Wait For It...! -- Serial Cougars -- Sex and Desire Through the Lens of Television Time -- Still Looking -- “You’ve Got Time” -- “I’m Too Old to Pretend Anymore” -- “Blanche and the Younger Man” -- Epilog: The Social and Cultural Relevance of Studying Age in Television -- Aging beyond the Rhetoric of Aging -- Contributors

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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