Includes bibliographical references and index
Cynthia J. Miller: Introduction: on the silver screen: aging heroes in film genresTwilight heroes: old age and unfinished business in four "Heartland" films
Mei-Chen Lin and Paul Haridakis: Golden agers, recluses and John Wayne: aging stereotypes and aging heroes in movie westerns
Norma Jones: Aaadrriaan! I'll be baaaaaack! Schwarzenegger and Stallone as aging action heroes
A. Bowdoin Van Riper: Under the wide and starry sky: Hollywood and aging astronauts, 1996-2000
Gust A. Yep, Ryan Lescure, and Jace Allen: Diversity concerns: sexuality, race and gender. Queering aging? representations of Liberace's intimate life in HBO's Behind the candelabra
Dustin Bradley Goltz: Overcoming the villainous monster: the beginnings of heroic gay male aging
Carlos D. Morrison, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, and Ayoleke D. Okeowo: The power of performance: Tyler Perry's Madea as village sage and superwoman
Emily S. Kinsky and Amanda Gallagher: "Not bad for an abuela, eh?": the representation of the power of age in Maya & Miguel
Caryn E. Neumann: Babes and crones: women growing old in comics
Patrice M. Buzzanell and Suzy D'Enbeau: Being a man? masculinity and aging heroes. Aging masculinity in popular culture: the case of Mad men's Roger Sterling
Nathan Miczo: Aging superheroes: retirement and return in Kingdom come and Old man Logan
It'r Erhart and Hande Eslen-ziya: Mr. incredible, the man-of-action, the man-of-power: what if he loses it all?
Guilliaume De Syon: "He has to be good. The airline won't settle for less": gender, age, and the trope of the male pilot in advertising
Barbara Cook Overton, Athena Du Pré, and Loretta l. Pecchioni: Real to reel: individuals aging on and off the screen. Helen Mirren and the media portrayals of aging: women's sexuality concealed and revealed
Anna Thompson Hajdik: Hellraiser, dandy, eccentric: the evolving star persona of Peter O'Toole in the 1980s and beyond
Kathleen Turner: The Betty White moment: the rhetoric of constructing aging and sexuality
Salvador Jimenez-Murguia.: The re-characterization of age and the aging bricoleur: Danny Trejo's reinvention of aging in acting
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