Serializing Age : : Aging and Old Age in TV Series / / ed. by Anita Wohlmann, Maricel Oró-Piqueras.
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 res...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Aging Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783839432761 9783110700985 9783110485103 9783110485332 9783110489842 9783110661552 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783839432761?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Anita Wohlmann, Maricel Oró-Piqueras. |