"I'm Too Old to Pretend Anymore"

Krainitzki, Eva L

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“…Television has been identified as the space where normative concepts of femininity and ageing have been contested most consistently, be it in presenting more complex and multi-layered representations of ageing femininities(Jennings and Krainitzki 2015) or transgressive images of old age in new television formats(Krainitzki 2016).…”

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“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

Krainitzki¹

2019

An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies

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Representations of intersections of gender, age, and sexuality can reveal deep-rooted cultural anxieties about older women and sexuality. Images of lesbian ageing are of particular interest in terms of alterity, as the old/er queer woman can combine layers of otherness-not only is she the cultural "other" within heteronormativity, but she can also appear as the opposite of popular culture's lesbian chic. In this article, a cultural analysis of a range of films-If These Walls Could Talk 2 (dir. Anderson, Coolidge, and Heche 2000), Itty Bitty Titty Committee (dir. Babbit 2007), The Owls (dir. Dunye 2010), Hannah Free (dir. Carlton 2009), and Cloudburst (dir. Fitzgerald 2011)-considers diverse dramatisations of lesbian generations. This article interrogates to what extent alternative cinemas deconstruct normative conceptualisations of ageing. Drawing on recent critiques of post-feminist culture, and a range of feminist and age/ing studies scholarship, it suggests that a linear understanding of ageing and the generational underlies dominant depictions of oppositional binaries of young versus old, of generational segregation or rivalry, and the othering of age. It concludes that non-linear understandings of temporality and ageing contain the potential for New Queer Cinema to counteract such idealisations of youthfulness, which, it argues, is one of the most deep-rooted manifestations of (hetero)normativity.

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“…11 Much like I argued elsewhere in relation to the representation of older female prisoners in Orange is the New Black (dir. Jenji Kohan 2013-) (Krainitzki 2016; see also Maierhofer 2003).…”

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“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

Krainitzki¹

2019

An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies

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“…These theorisations propose a non-linear understanding of ageing and are compatible with the work of queer theory in challenging age stereotypes and the normativity of age scripts (Sandberg 2008). Indeed, the notion of queer temporality (Halberstam 2005) has been particularly useful and influential in deconstructing linear, chronological understandings of time and ageing (Port 2012;Krainitzki 2016). …”

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“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

Krainitzki

2016

Feminist Media Studies

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"I'm Too Old to Pretend Anymore"

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“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

“Older-wiser-lesbians” and “baby-dykes”: mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema

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