Spinsters, Widows and Chars : : The Ageing Woman in British Film / / Claire Mortimer.
Establishes the cultural and historical contexts for representations of female ageing in British film since the 1930sExamines issues around ageing femininities using a range of case studies of films and actresses, both known and forgottenEstablishes the case for the importance of the character actre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Ageing Women and British Cinema
- 2. Immobile Women? Ageing Women and Wartime Cinema
- 3. ‘It ain’t natural her not having a husband’: Spinsters and the Post-war Settlement
- 4. ‘Dangerous and unwholesome’: The Spinster Teacher
- 5. Battleaxes and Chars: Working-Class Matriarchs
- 6. ‘Not having it so good’: Widowhood, Anomalous Ageing and the Welfare State
- 7. ‘Infertile, domestically unnecessary and jealous’: Hags, Witches and the Magic Spinster
- 8. ‘Senior-bait cinema’: Female Ageing in Contemporary British Film
- Bibliography
- Index