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Book Synopsis The Silvering Screen by : Sally Chivers
Download or read book The Silvering Screen written by Sally Chivers and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-05-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt, where aging is a central theme. The first-ever sustained discussion of old age in cinema, The Silvering Screen brings together theories from disability studies, critical gerontology, and cultural studies, to examine how the film industry has linked old age with physical and mental disability. Sally Chivers further examines Hollywood's mixed messages - the applauding of actors who portray the debilitating side of aging, while promoting a culture of youth - as well as the gendering of old age on film. The Silvering Screen makes a timely attempt to counter the fear of aging implicit in these readings by proposing alternate ways to value getting older.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age' by : Josephine Dolan
Download or read book Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age' written by Josephine Dolan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore ‘old age’ in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies. It takes its cue from the dual meanings of ‘silvering’ – economics and ageing – and explores shifting formulations of ‘old age’ and gender in contemporary cinema. Broad in its scope, the book establishes the importance of silver audiences to the survival of cinema exhibition while also forging connections between the pleasures of ‘old age’ films, consumer culture, the ‘economy of celebrity’ and the gendered silvering of stardom. The chapters examine gendered genres such as romantic comedies, action and heist movies, the prosthetics of costume, and CGI enabled age transformations. Through this analysis, Josephine Dolan teases out the different meanings of ageing masculinity and femininity offered in contemporary cinema. She identifies ageing femininity as the pathologised target of rejuvenation while masculine ageing is seen to enhance an enduring youthfulness. This book has interdisciplinary appeal and will engage scholars interested in ‘old age’ and gender representations in contemporary cinema.
Book Synopsis The Silver Screen by : Maureen Howard
Download or read book The Silver Screen written by Maureen Howard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Howard deepens her inquiry into the meeting place of history and family in this stunning and accessible novel. Isabel Murphy renounced silent-film stardom to raise a family in Rhode Island. Now she is dead at 90 and her children are trying to break free of the lives she has dealt them. Joe, a Jesuit priest, has failed at love and the healing of souls. Stodgy Rita has found late happiness with a gangster who has turned state’s evidence. And Gemma, Isabel’s honorary child, has grown up to experience a strange celebrity as a photographer. A darkly comic story of guilt, love, and forgiveness, The Silver Screen is luminous in its intelligence and empathy.
Book Synopsis Unfitting Stories by : Valerie Raoul
Download or read book Unfitting Stories written by Valerie Raoul and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of perspectives. Bringing together the work of Canadian researchers, health professionals, and people with lived experiences of disease, disability, or trauma, it addresses central issues about authority in medical and personal narratives and the value of cross- or interdisciplinary research in understanding such experiences. The book considers the aesthetic dimensions of health-related stories with literary readings that look at how personal accounts of disease, disability, and trauma are crafted by writers and filmmakers into published works. Topics range from psychiatric hospitalization and aestheticizing cancer, to father-daughter incest in film. The collection also deals with the therapeutic or transformative effect of stories with essays about men, sport, and spinal cord injury; narrative teaching at L’Arche (a faith-based network of communities inclusive of people with developmental disabilities); and the construction of a “schizophrenic” identity. A final section examines the polemical functions of narrative, directing attention to the professional and political contexts within which stories are constructed and exchanged. Topics include ableist limits on self-narration; drug addiction and the disease model; and narratives of trauma and Aboriginal post-secondary students. Unfitting Stories is essential reading for researchers using narrative methods or materials, for teachers, students, and professionals working in the field of health services, and for concerned consumers of the health care system. It deals with practical problems relevant to policy-makers as well as theoretical issues of interest to specialists in bioethics, gender analysis, and narrative theory. Read the chapter “Social Trauma and Serial Autobiography: Healing and Beyond” by Bina Freiwald on the Concordia University Library Spectrum Research Repository website.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopædia Britannica by : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book English Mechanic and World of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo-American Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Chemical Lecture Experiments by : George S. Newth
Download or read book Chemical Lecture Experiments written by George S. Newth and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia Britannica by : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Download or read book The Encyclopedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ageing in Everyday Life by : Katz, Stephen
Download or read book Ageing in Everyday Life written by Katz, Stephen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, public and private spaces, older drivers, media representations, dementia care, health-tracking, dress and sexuality. This focus on micro-sociological conditions allows us to rethink key questions which have shaped debates in the social aspects of ageing. International contributions, including from the UK, USA, Sweden and Canada, provide a critical guide to inform thinking and planning our ageing futures.
Book Synopsis Urban Culture and the Modern City by : Ágnes Györke
Download or read book Urban Culture and the Modern City written by Ágnes Györke and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth analyses of the intriguing link between literature, the arts, and material culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The case studies situate Hungarian urban culture within the global flow of ideas as they explore the period of modernism, the mid-century, and the post-1989 era in a context that moves well beyond the borders of the country.
