Serializing Age: Aging and Old Age in TV Series (Aging Studies)

ISBN 10: 3837632768 / ISBN 13: 9783837632767

Published by Transcript-Verlag, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Serializing Age: Aging and Old Age in TV Series (Aging Studies)
• Publisher: Transcript-Verlag
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837632768
• ISBN 13: 9783837632767
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Maricel Oró-Piqueras, born in 1977, is a member of the research group Dedal-Lit and teaches literature, culture, and English language at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. Her research focuses on British contemporary writers such as Julian Barnes, Deborah Moggach and Kazuo Ishiguro. She has published articles in journals such as the "Journal of Aging Studies" and the "Journal of English Studies".

Associate professor Anita Wohlmann unterrichtet und forscht zu contemporary Anglophone literature und Narrativer Medizin an der Universität von Süddänemark, Odense.