Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing: Freeze Frame

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: A Timely Intervention — Unravelling the Gender/Age/Celebrity Matrix....Pages 1-10
Here, There and Nowhere: Ageing, Gender and Celebrity Studies....Pages 11-24
Reconfiguring Elinor Glyn: Ageing Female Experience and the Origins of the ‘It Girl’....Pages 25-42
Bette Davis: Acting and Not Acting Her Age....Pages 43-58
Moms Mabley and Whoopi Goldberg: Age, Comedy and Celebrity....Pages 59-76
‘Je joue le rôle d’une petite vieille, rondouillarde et bavarde, qui raconte sa vie…’ [‘I am playing the role of a little old lady, pleasantly plump and talkative, who is telling the story of her life…’]: The Significance of Agnès Varda’s Old Lady Onscreen....Pages 77-96
Ageing Grace/Fully: Grace Jones and the Queering of the Diva Myth....Pages 97-111
From the Woman Who ‘Had It All’ to the Tragic, Ageing Spinster: The Shifting Star Persona of Jennifer Aniston....Pages 112-126
‘Don’t Wear Beige — It Might Kill You’: The Politics of Ageing and Visibility in Fabulous Fashionistas....Pages 127-145
The Best Exotic Graceful Ager: Dame Judi Dench and Older Female Celebrity....Pages 146-161
‘I’m Not Past My Sell By Date Yet!’: Sarah Jane’s Adventures in Postfeminist Rejuvenation and the Later-Life Celebrity of Elisabeth Sladen....Pages 162-177
‘Call the Celebrity’: Voicing the Experience of Women and Ageing through the Distinctive Vocal Presence of Vanessa Redgrave....Pages 178-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-203