Aging, media, and culture / edited by C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby, and Anthony R. Bardo.

Contributor Harrington, C. Lee, 1964- editor of compilation.

Imprint:Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2014.

Descriptionvi, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction -- New areas of inquiry in aging, media, and culture / C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby and Anthony R. Bardo -- Advertising and marketing -- Aspiration and compromise : portrayals of older adults in television advertising / Shyon Baumann and Kim de Laat -- Forever young : the new aging consumer in the marketplace / Anne L. Balazs -- Age identities -- Reflections of old age, constructions of aging selves : drawing links between media images and views of aging / Anne E. Barrett, Alex Raphael, and Justine Gunderson -- Age and gender in film and television : the case of huong hoang / Anthony R. Bardo -- Celebrity -- Growing old in celebrity culture / Hilde Van den Bulck -- Social meaning of celebrities in the everyday lives of nursing home residents : an exploratory study / Nathalie Claessens -- Music -- Music, performance and generation : the making of boomer rock and roll biographies / Stephen Katz -- "The long strange trip" continues : aging deadheads / Rebecca G. Adams, and Justin T. Harmon -- Fandom -- A life course perspective on fandom / C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby -- Breaking dusk : fandom, gender/age intersectionality, and the "twilight moms" / Christine Scodari -- Gender and sexuality -- "Let's do it like grown-ups" : a filmic mènage of age, gender, and sexuality / Leni Marshall and Aagje Swinnen -- Sexualizing the third age / Barbara L. Marshall -- Social/new media -- Learning new tricks : the use of social media in later life / Kelly Quinn -- Polite pigs and emotional elves : age in digital worlds / Rosa Mikeal Martey -- Afterwords -- "Time to grow up" : the study of media and aging as a field in its infancy / Cornel Sandvoss -- A view from gerontology / Merril Silverstein.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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