Overview
Addresses the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships, which can be broadly defined to include sexual, romantic, and unrequited love
Focuses on the often divisive relationship between the discourse of youth and the discourse of ageing in popular culture
Interrogate the growing prominence of older actors in film and television and engages with diverse conceptual territory
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Female Desire in Cross Generational Relationships
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Heterosexual Romantic Cross Generational Relationships
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Same Sex Romantic Cross Generational Relationships
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Dysfunctional Cross Generational Relationships
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Non Romantic Cross Generational Relationships
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About this book
Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema. While such relationships have historically operated within the framework of heteronormativity, and have usually explored cross generational romance in the context of older men/younger women, contemporary depictions have expanded to focus also on taboo configurations of love between older women and younger men and cross generational LGBT coupledom. Contemporary depictions have sought to complicate not only heteronormativity in cross generational relationships, but also to navigate the differences between socially acceptable love and transgressive desire. This collection focuses on the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships and addresses the often divisive relationship between the discourses of youth and ageing in popular culture.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joel Gwynne is an Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological Institute, Singapore. His research has appeared in international journals such as the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of Literary Studies, Film International, Film, Fashion and Consumption, the Journal of Contemporary Asia, the Journal of Gender Studies, Women's Studies International Forum, Feminist Theory, and Feminist Media Studies.
Niall Richardson lectures in film at the University of Sussex, UK, where he convenes MA Gender and Media. He is the author of the monographs The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings (2009), Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture (2010) and Ageing Femininity on Screen: The Older Woman in Contemporary Cinema (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema
Editors: Joel Gwynne, Niall Richardson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40064-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40063-7Published: 22 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40066-8Published: 23 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40064-4Published: 21 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Culture , Screen Studies