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Aging, media, and culture /

This collection of original articles sits at the intersection of two interdisciplinary fields: media studies and aging studies. Drawing on both scholarly literatures, we explore the reciprocal influences of aging and mediation in the realms of music, television, celebrity, fandom, social media, film...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Harrington, C. Lee, 1964- (Author, Editor), Bielby, Denise D. (Author, Editor), Bardo, Anthony R. (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Subjects:
Older people.
Mass media and older people.
Mass media and culture.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • New areas of inquiry in aging, media, and culture / C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby and Anthony R. Bardo
  • Advertising and marketing
  • Aspiration and compromise : portrayals of older adults in television advertising / Shyon Baumann and Kim de Laat
  • Forever young : the new aging consumer in the marketplace / Anne L. Balazs
  • Age identities
  • Reflections of old age, constructions of aging selves : drawing links between media images and views of aging / Anne E. Barrett, Alex Raphael, and Justine Gunderson
  • Age and gender in film and television : the case of huong hoang / Anthony R. Bardo
  • Celebrity
  • Growing old in celebrity culture / Hilde Van den Bulck
  • Social meaning of celebrities in the everyday lives of nursing home residents : an exploratory study / Nathalie Claessens
  • Music
  • Music, performance and generation : the making of boomer rock and roll biographies / Stephen Katz
  • "The long strange trip" continues : aging deadheads / Rebecca G. Adams, and Justin T. Harmon
  • Fandom
  • A life course perspective on fandom / C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby
  • Breaking dusk : fandom, gender/age intersectionality, and the "twilight moms" / Christine Scodari
  • Gender and sexuality
  • "Let's do it like grown-ups" : a filmic mènage of age, gender, and sexuality / Leni Marshall and Aagje Swinnen
  • Sexualizing the third age / Barbara L. Marshall
  • Social/new media
  • Learning new tricks : the use of social media in later life / Kelly Quinn
  • Polite pigs and emotional elves : age in digital worlds / Rosa Mikeal Martey
  • Afterword : a view from media studies / Cornel Sandvoss
  • Afterword : a view from gerontology / Merril Silverstein.