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Aging Heroes Aging Heroes Growing Old in Popular Culture Edited by Norma Jones Bob Batchelor ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Rowman & Littlefield A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26-34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB Copyright © 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aging heroes : growing old in popular culture / edited by Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4422-5006-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4422-5007-9 (ebook) 1. Older people in mass media. 2. Older people in popular culture. 3. Heroes in mass media. I. Jones, Norma, 1972- editor. II. Batchelor, Bob. P94.5.A38A55 2015 305.26—dc23 2014049733 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Bad Abides: Jeff Bridges, Ideal Aging Hero Bob Batchelor and Norma Jones I: On the Silver Screen: Aging Heroes in Film Genres 1 Twilight Heroes: Old Age and Unfinished Business in Four “Heartland” Films Cynthia J. Miller 2 Golden Agers, Recluses, and John Wayne: Aging Stereotypes and Aging Heroes in Movie Westerns Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis 3 AAADRRIAAN! I’ll Be Baaaaaack!: Schwarzenegger and Stallone as Aging Action Heroes Norma Jones 4 Under the Wide and Starry Sky: Hollywood and Aging Astronauts, 1996–2000 A. Bowdoin Van Riper II: Diversity Concerns: Sexuality, Race, and Gender 5 Queering Aging?: Representations of Liberace’s Intimate Life in HBO’s Behind the Candelabra Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen 6 Overcoming the Villainous Monster: The Beginnings of Heroic Gay Male Aging Dustin Bradley Goltz v ix xi 1 3 15 31 49 63 65 77 vi Contents 7 The Power of Performance: Tyler Perry’s Madea as Village Sage and Superwoman Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo 8 “Not Bad for an Abuela, Eh?”: The Representation of the Power of Age in Maya & Miguel Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher 9 Babes and Crones: Women Growing Old in Comics Caryn E. Neumann III: Being a Man? Masculinity and Aging Heroes 10 Aging Masculinity in Popular Culture: The Case of Mad Men’s Roger Sterling Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D’Enbeau 11 Aging Superheroes: Retirement and Return in Kingdom Come and Old Man Logan Nathan Miczo 12 Mr. Incredible, Man of Action, Man of Power: What If He Loses It All? Itır Erhart and Hande Eslen-Ziya 13 “He Has to Be Good. The Airline Won’t Settle for Less.”: Gender, Age, and the Trope of the Male Pilot in Advertising Guilliaume de Syon IV: Real to Reel: Individuals Aging on and off the Screen 14 Helen Mirren and the Media Portrayals of Aging: Women’s Sexuality Concealed and Revealed Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pré, and Loretta L. Pecchioni 15 Hellraiser, Dandy, Eccentric: The Evolving Star Persona of Peter O’Toole in the 1980s and Beyond Anna Thompson Hajdik 16 The Betty White Moment: The Rhetoric of Constructing Aging and Sexuality Kathleen M. Turner 17 The Recharacterization of Age and the Aging Bricoleur: Danny Trejo’s Reinvention of Aging in Acting Salvador Jimenez-Murguia Index 89 101 119 129 131 143 157 169 179 181 199 211 223 233 Contents About the Editors and Contributors vii 239
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