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WOMEN, CELEBRITY AND CULTURES OF AGEING
FREEZE FRAME |
| By: |
Deborah Jermyn (Editor), Susan Holmes (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£72.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
113749512X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137495129 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
12 August, 2015 |
| Description: |
This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities. |
| Synopsis: |
Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing interrogates the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity, examining how celebrity culture plays a crucial role in mapping out the social and cultural meanings of 'older' and ageing women. Indeed, with the corporeality of female celebrities being surveilled and scrutinised by popular media forms on a daily basis, celebrity culture now serves a key function in shoring up 'appropriate' and 'inappropriate' images and directives regarding how women 'should' age. Focusing on an array of historical and contemporary star/celebrity images, including figures such as Bette Davis, 'Moms' Mabley, Jennifer Aniston, Grace Jones and Dame Judi Dench, the book seeks to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture constructs discourses on the limits and possibilities of ageing femininities. |
| Illustrations: |
8 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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