The Silvering Screen

Chivers, Sally

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“…In addition, scholars have shed light on the heteronormative nature of the norms of successful ageing. First, because 'success' is described in terms of beauty, which is associated with heterosexual desirability and an idealised heterosexual form of femininity (Chivers, 2011). And secondly, because of the way 'successful' sex is usually reduced to 'heterosexual functionality' (Katz and Marshall, 2004: 65) and men's sustained ability to perform penetrative sex.…”

Section: A Twist In the Narrativementioning

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Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels

Vuyst

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article explores representations of ageing femininities and later-in-life intimacies based on a critical, contextualised reading of two graphic novels. Narratives of later life are deeply entangled with notions of happiness. While ageing has usually been associated with decay, loss and an irreversible path to unhappiness, in recent years, there has been a shift towards a more rosy picture of an active, social, happy and fulfilling later-in-life. These happiness scripts contain a set of gendered instructions on how to achieve the good life in old age. For ageing women, they include expectations about beauty and the body, sexual desires and the temporal organisation of the life course. This article draws on Sara Ahmed’s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness and the work that emotions do to value certain bodies, expressions of sexuality and life choices as good for older women and others as bad. The study found that the two graphic novels analysed ‘Bloesems in de herfst’ (Blossoms in Autumn, 2018) by Zidrou and Aimée De Jongh and ‘Bingo Love’ (2018) by Tee Franklin and Jen St-Onge, both confirm and challenge normative ideas about gender, ageing and sexuality. However, while both graphic novels redraw some lines of the prevailing scripts of happiness for ageing women, they do not erase them entirely from the frame. In the end, I will take the discussion one step further by reflecting on how representations of older women can destabilise norms about gender, sexuality and ageing and subvert disciplinary narratives about later life happiness.

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Section: A Twist In the Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels

Vuyst

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…There is potential for resistance to these norms in older women who are embracing their grumpiness to complain about the unfair systems that decide what and whom they should desire and how they should express intimacy and sexuality -especially older queer women, whose love, in general, tends to be desexualised and who do not fit the idealised heterosexual form of youthful femininity (Chivers, 2011). Just as the words 'wilful' and 'queer', which were used as pejorative terms to dismiss people who were questioning norms in society, were reclaimed, it can be a political act for older women to retool the negative term 'grumpiness', claim it with pride, and use it to question and destabilise ageist, sexist and heteronormative structures.…”

Section: From Grumpiness To a Patchwork Of Unrulinessmentioning

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“…A common way in which this is portrayed is by using the technique of mirror shots, in which an older woman becomes deeply sad when seeing her reflection and feels alienated by her older body that does not correspond with her younger self-image. Chivers (2011) refers to an example of an iconic scene in the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962, dir. Robert Aldrich) in which Jane, an ageing former actress, accidentally meets herself in the mirror and responds with shock, horror and deep sadness.…”

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“…Neoliberal governments conveniently use it to cut social benefits, dismantle support systems and scale down protective measures for older citizens who are not considered 'productive' anymore. The disciplinary logic especially targets women and values an idealised heterosexual form of youthful femininity (Chivers, 2011). The happy ageing woman is constructed as a woman who does not show any visible signs of ageing (Fairclough, 2012;Twigg, 2004).…”

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Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien

Vuyst

2021

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Narratives on ageing are deeply entangled with discourses on happiness. This article draws on Sara Ahmed’s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness to explore how happiness scripts make certain ‘happy objects’ such as beauty aspirations, sexual desires, and life choices seen as ‘right’ for older women and others as ‘wrong’. My aim is to contribute to new feminist theorisations of women’s ageing by exploring the unhappy archives of older women and looking for ways in which normative happiness scripts are challenged, destabilised and rewritten. Articulations of resistance are found through interpretative engagement with representations of older women who feel alienated by the ‘right’ happy objects, deliberately make ‘wrong’ object choices or turn the ‘right’ happy objects into tools to dismantle ageist, sexist and heteronormative structures. These resistance strategies come together in my theorising of the grumpy old women as affect alien and a patchwork of unruliness.

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“…Outros pesquisadores observaram a escassez de papéis fortes no cinema para atrizes acima de 50 anos, levando-as a recorrerem a procedimentos cirúrgicos estéticos com o intuito de prolongarem sua vida profissional (Chivers, 2011). Alguns estudos buscaram compreender os estereótipos mais frequentes de pessoas mais velhas que apareciam em diferentes textos culturais, sejam eles positivos ou negativos (Gatling, 2013;Hummert & Levy, 2002;Magoffin, 2007).…”

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Viagens que Transformam a Condição Existencial

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Casotti

2020

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O turismo pode figurar como uma atividade catalisadora para mudanças positivas na vida dos idosos ao proporcionar possibilidades de socialização, fuga da rotina, conhecimento de novas realidades e culturas. O presente trabalho utiliza o cinema para investigar representações dos idosos e narrativas sobre processos de transformação em filmes com roteiros centrados em experiências de viagens. A análise de textos culturais tais como músicas, livros, propagandas, programas de televisão e filmes contribui para o entendimento de normas e padrões sociais existentes. Esse tipo de pesquisa ainda é pouco explorado no campo do turismo, mas sabe-se que o cinema se tornou uma arte universal capaz de revelar profundos e íntimos aspectos da sociedade através de suas narrativas e representações. Para análise de conteúdo foram selecionados quatro filmes que ligavam idosos, viagens e transformação: “Antes de Partir (2008)”, “O Exótico Hotel Marigold (2011)”, “Última Viagem a Vegas (2013)” e “Por Aqui e por Ali (2015)”. Posteriormente, foram construídas três categorias de análise: 1) motivação e escolha das experiências; 2) consumo; 3) envelhecimento e estigma. A discussão final está apoiada na lente da filosofia existencial para indicar nas narrativas dos filmes o papel transformador das viagens na vida dos idosos. As viagens são apresentadas como possibilidades de construir uma autenticidade existencial, pois são capazes de diluir sentimentos negativos tais como ansiedade, depressão e isolamento físico e psíquico.

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The Silvering Screen

Cited by 29 publications

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Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels

Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels

Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien

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