
Aging Heroes
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In Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture, Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor present a collection of essays that address the increasing presence of characters that simultaneously manifest and challenge the accepted stereotypes of aging. The contributors to this volume explore representations in television programs, comic books, theater, and other forms of media. The chapters include examinations of aging male and female actors who take on leading roles in such movies as Gran Torino, Grudge Match, Escape Plan, Space Cowboys, Taken,and The Big Lebowski as well as TheExpendables, Red,and X-Men franchises. Other chapters address perceptions of masculinity, sexuality, gender, and race as manifested by such cultural icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, Danny Trejo, Helen Mirren, Betty White, Liberace, and Tyler Perry's Madea.
With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that encompass the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes, this book offers a broader range of new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging. Aging Heroes will be of interest to scholars of film, television, gender studies, women's studies, sociology, aging studies, and media studies, as well as to general readers.
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Bob Batchelor, a noted cultural historian, is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including: The 1900s, The 1980s, The 2000s, American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade (4 volumes); John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013); and Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). Batchelor is founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal and editor of the Contemporary American Literature series published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Content
Introduction
On the Silver Screen: Aging Heroes in Film Genres
Twilight Heroes: Old Age and Unfinished Business in Four "Heartland" Films
Cynthia J. Miller
Golden Agers, Recluses and John Wayne: Aging Stereotypes and Aging Heroes in Movie Westerns
Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis
AAADRRIAAN! I'll Be Baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as Aging Action Heroes
Norma Jones
Under the Wide and Starry Sky: Hollywood and Aging Astronauts, 1996-2000
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Diversity Concerns: Sexuality, Race and Gender
Queering Aging? Representations of Liberace's Intimate Life in HBO's Behind the Candelabra
Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen
Overcoming the Villainous Monster: The Beginnings of Heroic Gay Male Aging
Dustin Bradley Goltz
The Power of Performance: Tyler Perry's Madea as Village Sage and Superwoman
Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo
"Not bad for an abuela, eh?" The representation of the power of age in Maya & Miguel
Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher
Babes and Crones: Women Growing Old in Comics
Caryn E. Neumann
Being a Man? Masculinity and Aging Heroes
Aging Masculinity in Popular Culture: The Case of Mad Men's Roger Sterling
Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D'Enbeau
Aging Superheroes: Retirement and Return in Kingdom Come and Old Man Logan
Nathan Miczo
Mr. Incredible, the Man-of-Action, The Man-of-Power: What If He Loses It All?
Itir Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya
"He has to be good. The Airline Won't Settle for Less:" Gender, Age, and the Trope of the Male Pilot in Advertising
Guilliaume de Syon
Real to Reel: Individuals Aging On and Off the Screen
Helen Mirren and the Media Portrayals of Aging: Women's Sexuality Concealed and Revealed
Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pré, and Loretta L. Pecchioni
Hellraiser, Dandy, Eccentric: The Evolving Star Persona of Peter O'Toole in the 1980s and Beyond
Anna Thompson Hajdik
The Betty White Moment: The Rhetoric of Constructing Aging and Sexuality
Kathleen Turner
The Re-characterization of Age and the Aging Bricoleur: Danny Trejo's Reinvention of Aging in Acting
Salvador Jimenez-Murguia
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
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