Screen LibraryThe ages of life : living and aging in conflict? /
The binary construction of young and old , which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis fo...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Aging studies ; volume 3. |
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| Summary: |
The binary construction of young and old , which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research. The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839422120 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | HQ1061 |
| CLC: | C913.6 |
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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- The Ages of Life / Positive Aging in an Age of Neo-liberalism / Celebrating or Denying Age? / Age-Related Disability / Aged by Law / "The Journey into the Land of Forgetfulness" / Representation of Old Age in Media / Age Images in Advertising / Of Mimicry and Age / The Irony of the Ages of Life / Past the Mirror of Victorian Aging and Beyond / Beyond Dis-Ease / Growing Old and Searching for Identity in Anne Tyler s Noah s Compass (2009) and Umberto Eco s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004) / Man, Interrupted / Too Old To Rock? / Contributors. |