Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema

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Edited by Tony Tracy and Michaela Schrage-Früh

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Europe
Keywords: Europe, masculinity
Publishing date: 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Collection: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Language: English

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Paperback • 252 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-032-30663-6

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Book Presentation:
This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema.

With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the primarily European focus of the book is juxtaposed with analysis of the social and cultural constructions of manhood and the "anti-ageing" impulses of male stardom in contemporary Hollywood. These themes are inflected in different ways throughout the volume, from considering how old age is not the monolithic and unified life stage with which it is often framed, to exploring issues of queerness, sexuality, and asexuality, as well as themes such as national cinema and dementia.

Offering a diverse and multifaceted portrait of ageing and masculinity in contemporary cinema, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film and screen studies, gender and masculinity studies, and cultural gerontology.

About the authors:
Tony Tracy is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies and Co-founder of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway, Ireland. His research centres on film history and Irish cinema with a particular interest in masculinities. His monograph White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema was published in 2022.

Michaela Schrage-Früh is Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Galway, Ireland. She is the author of Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian (2004) and Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (2016). She has published widely on representations of gender and ageing in literature and culture, and is co-editor of five essay collections on the theme.

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