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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Banerjee, Mita,; Chivers, Sally,; Colloseus, Cecilia,; Goltz, Dustin Bradley,; Gorton, Kristyn,; Harrington, C. Lee,; Jennings, Ros,; King, Neal,; Krainitzki, Eva,; Küpper, Thomas,; Miquel-Baldellou, Marta,; Oró-Piqueras, Maricel,; Paul, Norbert W.,; Reichenpfader, Julia,; Wohlmann, Anita,
• HerausgeberIn: Oró-Piqueras, Maricel,; Wohlmann, Anita,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Aging Studies ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

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...

Table of 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