Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema - Image 1

£77.00

University of Texas Press Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema

Name: Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema
Brand: University of Texas Press
Price: 77.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Genres

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£77 today · previous high £77 · all-time low £74

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 382 days • 382 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 382 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £77 (245 days, 64.1%)

Price range: £74 - £77

Price levels: 2 different prices over 382 days

Description

Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In many popular films, older characters fade into irrelevance, inactivity, or absurdity, or else they stay in the background as wise elders while younger characters provide the action. Most American films do not attempt to portray the rich variety of experiences or the sensitive aging issues that people confront in the years beyond fifty. Fade to Gray offers one of the first extended studies of the portrayal of older people in American cinema from the silent era to the present. Writing in an accessible style for both general audiences and scholars, Timothy Shary and Nancy McVittie examine social attitudes toward aging through an analysis of hundreds of individual films, including such classics as You Can’t Take It With You (1938), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Nebraska (2013). They show how representations of the aging process and depictions of older people embracing or enduring the various experiences of longer lives have evolved over the past century, as well as how film industry practices have both reflected and influenced perceptions of aging in American society. Exposing the social and political motivations for negative cinematic portrayals of the elderly, Fade to Gray also gives visibility to films that provide opportunities for better understanding and appreciation of the aged and the aging process.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Texas Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0292717792
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > Genres
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 September 2016
Listed Since: 26 March 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Texas Press Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Perceptions of Aging in Literature: A Cross Cultural Study (Contributions to the Study of Aging)

Aging: Demographics, Health, and Health Services

Handbook of Rural Aging (Routledge Handbooks)

The Gerontology Field Placement: Internships and Practicums in Aging

Nutrients and Nutraceuticals for Active & Healthy Ageing

Women and Aging: Celebrating Ourselves (Haworth Women's Studies)

The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology

Women’s Narratives of Ageing and Care: 1 (Cultures of Ageing and Care, 1)

Successful Aging: Strategies For Healthy Living (Prevention in Practice Library)

Care Managers: Working with the Aging Family

Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy and Practice Implications

Positive Aging and Precarity: Theory, Policy, and Social Reality within a Comparative German Context: 21 (International Perspectives on Aging, 21)

Aging Education in a Global Context: 26 (Gerontology and Geriatrics)

Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods: Understanding successful aging (Research Methods in Developmental Psychology: A Handbook Series)

Process of Aging: Social and Psychological Perspectives

Developments and Research on Aging: An International Handbook

Changing Worlds and the Ageing Subject: Dimensions in the Study of Ageing and Later Life

Faces of Women and Aging

Family Life in Old Age: 8 (Publications of the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute (NIDI) and the Population and Family Study Centre (CBGS), 8)

Studying Aging and Social Change: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families: Policy and Practice Implications

Fostering Social Work Gerontology Competence: A Collection of Papers from the First National Gerontological Social Work Conference

Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods (Textbooks in Aging)

Images of Older People in Western Art and Society