Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing practices and new media technologies have resulted in complex television narratives, in which experimental temporalities and revisions of narrative linearity and chronological time have become key features. As the first of its kind, this volume investigates how TV series as a powerful cultural medium shape representations of age and aging, such as in »Orange Is The New Black«, »The Wire« or »Desperate Housewives«, to understand what it means to live in time.

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Information

Publisher

transcript Verlag

Year

2015

ISBN

9783839432761

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gerontology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover Serializing Age
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Serial Narrative, Temporality and Aging: An Introduction
BETWEEN SCREEN AND REALITY: NEGOTIATING THE EFFECTS OF OLD AGE AND AGING
TEMPORALITY AND AGING: EXPERIMENTS WITH MAGIC, NARRATIVE AND GENRE
SEX AND DESIRE THROUGH THE LENS OF TELEVISION TIME
EPILOG: THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RELEVANCE OF STUDYING AGE IN TELEVISION
Contributors