Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema

by Nancy McVittie and Timothy Shary

Book Overview

Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017

Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In many popular films, older characters fade into irrelevance, inactivity, or absurdity, or else they stay in the background as wise elders while younger characters provide the action. Most American films do not attempt to portray the rich variety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477310630
• ISBN13: 9781477310632
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"