Fade to gray: aging in American cinema
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Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood
movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In many popular films, older
characters fade into irrelevance, inactivity, or absurdity, or else they stay in the back-
ground as wise elders while younger characters provide the action. Most American
films do not attempt to portray the rich variety of experiences or the sensitive aging
issues that people confront in the years beyond fifty.
Fade to Gray offers one of the first extended studies of the portrayal of older peo-
ple in American cinema from the silent era to the present. Writing in an accessible style
for both general audiences and scholars, Timothy Shary and Nancy McVittie exam-
ine social attitudes toward aging through an analysis of hundreds of individual films,
including such classics as You Can’t Take It With You (1938), Rosemary’s Baby (1968),
Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Nebraska (2013). They show how representations of the
aging process and depictions of older people embracing or enduring the various experi-
ences of longer lives have evolved over the past century, as well as how film industry
practices have both reflected and influenced perceptions of aging in American society.
Exposing the social and political motivations for negative cinematic portrayals of the
elderly, Fade to Gray also gives visibility to films that provide opportunities for better
understanding and appreciation of the aged and the aging process.
TIMOT H Y SHARY is the author or editor of several books on the representational pol-
itics of age and gender, including Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American
Cinema Since 1980 and Youth Culture in Global Cinema. He lives in Millsboro, Delaware.
NANCY McVITTIE is an instructor in the Department of Communication, Media, and
Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
INTRODUCTION I
The Study of Aging in Cinema 8
Filmography and Terminology 12
chapter one« Generational Conflict in Prewar Hollywood Film
Elder Depictions in Early Cinema and the Silent Era 20
The Neediest among Us 28
Solid Pillars in Unstable Times 33
Elders in the Nuclear Era 40
chapter two. The Sensational Specter of Aging 49
An Audience Lost 51
The Formation of Adult Films ” 55
Competing for the Adult Market 5 8
Gender and Generation in Melodrama 69
chapter three. The Horrific and the Hilarious 77
The Horror of Aging 79
Elder Exploitation in Youth Films 88
Elder Kitsch at Its Limits 93
chapter four. The Emergence of the Elder Odyssey 105
The Road to а Subgenre of Penultimate Quests 108
The Elder Odyssey in Expansion 117
Tn vestigating and Evading 124
The Road from Here 132
viii j Contents
chapter five. The Repression and Release of Old Romance 138
The May-December Romance as a Genre Device 143
Calmly Increasing Honesty 148
Elder Romance Matures 158
The Life Left in Love 168
chapter six. Deceptions and Delusions of Elder Death 174
Early Elder Death 177
Death Gets Darker 185
Elder Legacies 190
CONCLUSION 200
appendix a. Filmography of Significant Elder Roles in American
Cinema 205
appendix b. Subject Lists of Elder Films 225
Notes 233
Bibliography 249
Index 255 |
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