Research Catalog

Title

Visions of aging : images of the elderly in film / Amir Cohen-Shalev.

Author

Cohen-Shalev, Amir.

Publication

Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, ©2009.

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Details

Description

vi, 140 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The interface of old age and cinema provides a fascinating yet uncharted territory in the humanities and social sciences. Two central perspectives are explored: movies on old age by old filmmakers; and movies on old age by younger artists. The first perspective focuses on the cinematic representation of aging from within, whereas the second examines the ways aging is viewed from the outside. The distinction is based on the schism between the phenomenology of aging and its social representation: The one hinges on intrinsic qualities of "old age style" or "late style"; the second addresses attitudes towards old age in general as well as towards aging artists and the reception (or rejection) of their late films." "The author combines these general perspectives as it shifts between text and context, beginning with aging from the outside in order to introduce the semantics and pragmatics of the context (reception and filmmaking stylistic change, midlife images of old age), and continuing into the world of aging as cinematically represented from within, by old filmmakers, an often idiosyncratic, metaphysical and sometimes unapproachable world." "By providing a roadmap that charts previous scholarly paths of inquiry, this book offers a panoramic view of the direction of this new field of cinematic gerontology, and is essential reading for students and scholars of cinema, humanistic gerontology, psychology of art, and the sociology of old age and popular culture."--Jacket.

Subject

• Aging in motion pictures
• Altern Motiv
• Alter Motiv
• Film

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-138) and index.

Contents

Wild strawberries: life review as a fiction of middle age -- Tragically incomplete: creativity as a lasting resource in Providence -- She's been away: the female life-review as a relational project -- An end in sight: old age as present continuous in a woman's tale -- A lie for a lie: secrets in the family and the resilience of old age in since Otar left -- Old age and inter-generational family conflict in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander and Saraband -- Poetry of unadulterated imagination: the late style of Akira Kurosawa -- Claude Sautet's Winter of discontent -- Dying is easy, comedy is hard: depictions of old age in Waking Ned Devine and Autumn spring.

ISBN

• 9781845192808
• 184519280X
• 9781845195236
• 184519523X

LCCN

2008013638

OCLC

• ocn217263084
• 217263084
• SCSB-14400947

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library