Introduction
The study of aging in cinema
Filmography and terminology
Generational conflict in prewar Hollywood film
Elder depictions in early cinema and the silent era
The neediest among us
Solid pillars in unstable times
Elders in the nuclear era
The sensational specter of aging
An audience lost
The formation of "adult films"
Competing for the adult market
Gender and generation in melodrama
The horrific and the hilarious
The horror of aging
Elder exploitation in youth films
Elder kitsch at its limits
The emergence of the elder odyssey
The Road to a subgenre of penultimate quests
The elder odyssey in expansion
Investigating and evading
The road from here
The repression and release of old romance
The May-December romance as a genre device
Calmly increasing honesty
Elder romance matures
The life left in love
Deceptions and delusions of elder death
Early elder death
Death gets darker
Elder legacies.