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Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role on screen. 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. This book is a sustained discussion of old age in cinema. It 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. The author 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 book makes an attempt to counter the fear of aging implicit in these readings by proposing alternate ways to value getting older.

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Sociology of disability. --- Human body in motion pictures. --- People with disabilities in motion pictures. --- Handicapped in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- People with disabilities --- Sociological aspects

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Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes. »Ein sehr interessantes, weiterführendes und nachdenklich machendes Buch. [Es wird] nicht nur ein akademisches Publikum angesprochen, vor allem die Praxis sollte die Lektüre nicht scheuen.« Hermann Brandenburg, www.socialnet.de, 27.02.2018

Age groups: the elderly --- Aging Studies. --- Care. --- Cultural Studies. --- Identity. --- Institution. --- Life Course Narrative. --- Medicine. --- Old Age. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Space. --- Long-term Care; Institution; Identity; Life Course Narrative; Space; Old Age; Medicine; Aging Studies; Care; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Studies