Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing Freeze Frame [Paperback]

This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities.

Introduction  A Timely Intervention  Unravelling the Gender/Age/Celebrity Matrix; Deborah Jermyn & Su Holmes
1. Here, there and nowhere: ageing, gender and Celebrity Studies; Su Holmes & Deborah Jermyn
2. Reconfiguring Elinor Glyn: Ageing female experience and the origins of the ' 'It Girl ' '; Karen Randell & Alexis Weedon
3. Bette Davis: Acting and not Acting her Age; Martin Shingler
4. Moms Mabley and Whoopi Goldberg: age, comedy and celebrity; Sadie Wearing
5. ' 'Je joue le r?le d ' 'une petite vieille, rondouillarde et bavarde, qui raconte sa vie... ' ' [ ' 'I am playing the role of a little old lady, pleasantly plump and talkative, who is telling the story of her life& ' ']: The significance of Agn?s Varda ' 's old lady on screen; Rona Murray
6. Ageing Grace/Fully: Grace Jones and the Queering of the Diva; Nathalie Weidhase
7. From the woman who ' 'had it all ' ' to the tragic, ageing spinster: the shifting star persona of Jennifer Aniston; Susan Berridge
8. ' 'Don ' 't wear beige  it might kill you ' ': The politics of ageing and visibility in Fabulous Fashionistas; Deborah Jermyn
9. The best exotic graceful ager: Dame Judi Dench and older female celebrity; Melanie Williams
10. ' 'I ' 'm Not Past My Sell By Date Yet! ' ': Sarah Jane ' 's Adventures in Postfeminist Rejuvenation and the Later Life Celebrity of Elisabeth Sladen; Hannah Hamad
11. ' 'Call the celebrity ' ': Voicing the experience of women and ageing through the distinctive vocal presence of Vanessa Redgrave; Rol³g