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OverviewAs the baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, the elderly are often eccentric harbingers of doom—the crone who seeks to restore her vitality, the pensioners who bargain with the supernatural to cheat death, the ancient ancestors who haunt the living. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cynthia J. Miller , A. Bowdoin Van RiperPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.475kg ISBN: 9781476675374ISBN 10: 1476675376 Pages: 166 Publication Date: 08 February 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focussing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of over a dozen scholarly volumes, many of which explore the horror genre. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |