Elder horror: essays on film's frightening images of aging

"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"--

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Other Authors: Miller, Cynthia J. 1958- (Editor), Van Riper, Anthony Bowdoin 1963- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2019]
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:VIII, 247 pages illustrations
ISBN:9781476675374

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