Skip to main content
Book Chapter

Performing Gender and ‘Old Age’: Silvering Beauty and Having a Laugh

  • Dolan J
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2017), 121-169
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58402-1_4
N/ACitations
Citations of this article
1Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.
Get full text

Abstract

This chapter highlights a silvered beauty myth, a profit-making, rejuvenatory regime of feminine successful ageing, typified by Jane Fonda but resisted by Dame Judi Dench and Meryl Streep, while suggesting that the contemporary vilification of Madonna...

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Dolan, J. (2017). Performing Gender and ‘Old Age’: Silvering Beauty and Having a Laugh. In Contemporary Cinema and “Old Age” (pp. 121–169). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58402-1_4

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free