Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema; 2. The Ageing of Men on Film: Concepts and Perspectives; 3. "Using the Difficulty": Michael Caine as Ageing Rebel; 4. "A Porcelain Feeling": Performance and Ageing in the Very Late Films of John Gielgud; 5. Ageing Disgracefully: Depardieu, Hallyday, Luchini, and Silver Linings in Recent French Cinema; 6. Jean Rochefort as Ageing Star: Masculinity and Masquerade; 7. From Mustang to 2CV: Ageing in Claude Lelouch's Un homme et une femme Trilogy; 8. Ageing Male Melodrama and Post-Soviet Generational Conflict in Contemporary Estonian Cinema; 9. Restitution and Ageing Masculinities in Post-1989 Czech Cinema; 10. The (Im-)Possibility of Solidarity: Narratives of Ageing, Masculinity, and Intergenerational Relationships in the German Comedies We Are the New Ones (2014) and Granny Nanny (2020); 11. Ageing, Masculinity, and the Absurd in Toni Erdmann (2016); 12. "What Makes Us Alive": The Ageing Artist in Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty (2013) and Youth (2015); 13. Masculinity, Creativity, and Successful Ageing in Pedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory (2019); 14. Ageing Myths and Dark Romanticism in Albert Serra's Story of My Death (2013); 15. Male Ageing and Retribution in Contemporary Action Thrillers 16. De-ageing and Denying the "Older Man" in Recent Hollywood; 17. Our Fathers: Ageing Masculinities and Dementia in Contemporary Film; Index