Elder horror essays on film's frightening images of aging

"This collection of new essays explores how various filmic portrayals of aging--as an inescapable horror destined to overtake us all, as a terrifying time of reckoning with the past, as a portal to unimaginable powers--reflect our complex attitudes towards the elderly"--

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Weitere Verfasser: Miller, Cynthia J. (HerausgeberIn), Van Riper, Anthony Bowdoin (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2019
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Zusammenfassung:"This collection of new essays explores how various filmic portrayals of aging--as an inescapable horror destined to overtake us all, as a terrifying time of reckoning with the past, as a portal to unimaginable powers--reflect our complex attitudes towards the elderly"--
Beschreibung:VIII, 247 pages
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ISBN:9781476675374
978-1-4766-7537-4