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1. New areas of inquiry in aging, media, and culture / C. Lee Harrington, Denise D. Bielby and Anthony R. Bardo.
I. Advertising and marketing: 2. Aspiration and compromise : portrayals of older adults in television advertising / Shyon Baumann and Kim de Laat
2. Forever young : the new aging consumer in the marketplace / Anne L. Balazs.
II. Age identities: 4. Reflections of old age, constructions of aging selves : drawing links between media images and views of aging / Anne E. Barrett, Alex Raphael, and Justine Gunderson
5. Age and gender in film and television : the case of Huong Hoang / Anthony R. Bardo.
III. Celebrity: 6. Growing old in celebrity culture / Hilde Van den Bulck
7. Social meaning of celebrities in the everyday lives of nursing home residents : an exploratory study / Nathalie Claessens. IV. Music: 8. Music, performance and generation : the making of boomer rock and roll biographies / Stephen Katz
9. "The long strange trip" continues : aging deadheads / Rebecca G. Adams, and Justin T. Harmon.
V. Fandom: 10. A life course perspective on fandom / C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby
11. Breaking dusk : fandom, gender/age intersectionality, and the "twilight moms" / Christine Scodari.
VI. Gender and sexuality: 12. "Let's do it like grown-ups" : a filmic mènage of age, gender, and sexuality / Leni Marshall and Aagje Swinnen
13. Sexualizing the third age / Barbara L. Marshall.
VII. Social/new media: 14. Learning new tricks : the use of social media in later life / Kelly Quinn
15. Polite pigs and emotional elves : age in digital worlds / Rosa Mikeal Martey.
Afterword: A view from media studies / Cornel Sandvoss
Afterward: A view from gerontology / Merril Silverstein
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I. Advertising and marketing: 2. Aspiration and compromise : portrayals of older adults in television advertising / Shyon Baumann and Kim de Laat
2. Forever young : the new aging consumer in the marketplace / Anne L. Balazs.
II. Age identities: 4. Reflections of old age, constructions of aging selves : drawing links between media images and views of aging / Anne E. Barrett, Alex Raphael, and Justine Gunderson
5. Age and gender in film and television : the case of Huong Hoang / Anthony R. Bardo.
III. Celebrity: 6. Growing old in celebrity culture / Hilde Van den Bulck
7. Social meaning of celebrities in the everyday lives of nursing home residents : an exploratory study / Nathalie Claessens. IV. Music: 8. Music, performance and generation : the making of boomer rock and roll biographies / Stephen Katz
9. "The long strange trip" continues : aging deadheads / Rebecca G. Adams, and Justin T. Harmon.
V. Fandom: 10. A life course perspective on fandom / C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby
11. Breaking dusk : fandom, gender/age intersectionality, and the "twilight moms" / Christine Scodari.
VI. Gender and sexuality: 12. "Let's do it like grown-ups" : a filmic mènage of age, gender, and sexuality / Leni Marshall and Aagje Swinnen
13. Sexualizing the third age / Barbara L. Marshall.
VII. Social/new media: 14. Learning new tricks : the use of social media in later life / Kelly Quinn
15. Polite pigs and emotional elves : age in digital worlds / Rosa Mikeal Martey.
Afterword: A view from media studies / Cornel Sandvoss
Afterward: A view from gerontology / Merril Silverstein
References
Index
About the contributors.