Get a life, ladies. Your old one is not coming back’

Ageing, ageism and the lifespan of female celebrity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12976554
AutoresDeborah Jermyn (0000-0001-9261-9887, University of Roehampton, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen3
Número1
Páginas1-12
Fecha de publicación2012-02-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCelebrity Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1939-2397 • E-ISSN: 1939-2400
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19392397.2012.644708
OpenAlexW2146207873
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36
Referencias citadas10

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements Thanks to the editors of Celebrity Studies at Routledge who enthusiastically supported the concept for this special edition from its inception, and to the authors featured here who approached it with both industry and imagination. I owe a debt of gratitude to the colleagues and students who have formed an audience for this work at various times and venues, including the Bournemouth University Media School Post-Doctoral Research Group; the 'RomCom, Actually' conference at De Montfort University, 2011; and the London Film and Media Conference, 2011. Thanks also to the colleagues in the Department of Media, Culture and Language at Roehampton University for their support during the period of research leave which enabled me to complete this project. This collection is for my husband, Matt Wagner, for understanding how precious time is and yet putting so much of it my way; and in loving memory of our friend, Kathy Dudding, who would have made an awesome old lady. Notes 1. In the long term, though, this shift to later retirement and the economic downturn more broadly may well have a negative impact on life expectancy. Similarly, the vision of consumerism among older people engendered by Saga style marketing is far removed from the evidence of the prevalence of poverty among the 65+ demograph in the United States and United Kingdom, for example. 2. There is, however, an important emerging body of further scholarship in the field, dealing with film (Wearing Citation2007, Tally Citation2008, Negra Citation2009, Chivers Citation2011), 'makeover TV' (Heller Citation2007, Weber Citation2009) and cross-media forms (Negra Citation2009). In addition, in 2008 the innovative AHRC-funded 'Women, Ageing and the Media' Research Network and Workshop project in the United Kingdom produced a valuable archive of material, available from: http://www.wam-research.org.uk

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