Maricel Oró-Piqueras
Biographic Data
| ID | 6535398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maricel Oró-Piqueras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maricel |
| FAMILY NAME | Oró-Piqueras |
| SIGNATURE | ORÓ-PIQUERAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Lleida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6868-9113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Family, Generation and Kinship in the Television Series Years and Years
The TV drama series Years and Years (BBC/HBO, 2019), written by Russell T. Davies, is a speculative narrative that imagines a dystopian near-future (2019–34) which is clearly informed by then- (and still-) current concerns in the UK and wider world. This article considers the series’ reimagining of discourses of the family and kinship. Placing at its centre the multi-generational Lyons family, a collective marked by queerness in a variety of ways…
Mapping female ageing in the twenty-first century in Deborah Moggach's last novels
The wisdom of intergenerational relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s series Annals of the Western Shore ( Gifts, Voices and Powers )
Ursula Le Guin’s novels included in Annals of the Western Shore, published between the years 2004 and 2007, have as protagonists three young characters who, among uprising, rebellion and unfair states, have to find their place in Le Guin’s the Western Shore world. The three protagonists share a gift – the gift of remembering and telling stories – which is transmitted to two of them through an older man from the community where they live. Once the…
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction
Falcus, S., & Oró-Piqueras, M. (Eds.) (2023). Age and Ageing In Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction. (1st ed.) (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350230699
Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie
With its potential to engage a large audience and mark emerging social tendencies and with the rich narrative space that the seriality can bring, TV series can be a valuable cultural site through which to explore ageing as an experience in time. The Netflix's longest-running TV series Grace and Frankie (2015-2022) exhibits such potential, bringing together ageing and friendship into the popular cultural domain. Set in the contemporary US, the sho…
Diane Keaton’s late films
This article offers a cultural analysis of Diane Keaton’s later career that teases out the age/gender interactions of the roles she has played past her mid-fifties. Drawing on both age and gender theories, our analysis of Keaton’s late-life characterizations explains the actor’s transformation into an icon of a positive and desirable form of female aging. At the same time, it observes the normative aspects of gendered old age that are also perpet…
The Pain and Irony of Death in Julian Barnes's Memoirs Nothing to Be Frightened Of and Levels of Life
Julian Barnes is one of the best-known contemporary British authors, not only for his taste for formal experimentation well-documented in the novels and short stories he has published since the 1980s, but also for his obsession with death. Despite the fact that death – as a prime concern expressed through his characters’ discussions, particularly when they are in their old age – has been present in most of Barnes fictional works, the topic become…
Ageing without remembering
Is Manuela Carmena a politician? Spanish journalists and politicians in the spotlight
The purpose of this paper is to better understand how the participants involved in a specific radio interview use categorization to (re)produce a dominant discourse in the Spanish political arena. In this discourse, politicians are seen as untrustworthy, and certain journalists are portrayed as serving specific political interests. The interview needs to be analysed within its sociopolitical context. The wider context is one in which two new poli…
Broadening the scope of ageing femininities on TV
In her work on women and the soap opera, Christine Geraghty argues that the extended form of this TV genre, both in time and consequent plots, has contributed to a wider representation of women in terms of their age, personality traits and social background. Two recent Catalan soaps, Ventdelplà (2005-10) and La Riera (2010—) have started to broaden the spectrum of the older female characters that were present in the first Catalan soap operas, and…
Romantic, Sexy, Creative or Simply Unruly
Given their popularity, television shows are especially powerful in the propagation of images of forms of identity. Accordingly, they can be regarded as an interesting and highly effective artistic and sociocultural vehicle through which representations of old people, and old women in particular, can be analysed and discussed. Despite the success of The Golden Girls in the 1980s and the exponential ageing of the baby-boom generation, which ought …
Exploring the path to death through Barnes's older characters
When the Personal and the Historical Collide
In her ‘anti-memoir’ entitled Making It Up (2005), contemporary British novelist Penelope Lively rewrites key episodes of her life story and her personal history by fictionalising them. Taking the voice of different characters who were important in Lively's personal and social development, the author revises each of the eight personal and historical episodes that conform her ‘anti-memoir’. By distancing herself from her real self through fiction,…
Images of old age in YouTube
This article presents an analysis of the most viewed YouTube videos under the labels ‘old age’, ‘older age’ and ‘senior citizens’. As powerful sources that transmit cultural information which either perpetuates or undermines cultural stereotypes at a worldwide level, channels of information such as YouTube offer a valuable glimpse at those images of ageing and old age which are shared and consumed by nowadays viewers. This study offers an analysi…
The complexities of female aging
Challenging stereotypes? The older woman in the TV series Brothers & Sisters
The ‘Dys-Appearing’ Body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough
If the old body is usually read as a synonym of fragility and upcoming illness, even though not the case for most elderly citizens, the reality is that the longer we live, the increased probability of being affected by different illnesses cannot be eluded or denied. In Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough? the reader is invited to participate in the day-to-day routines of two aged female pro…
Narrating ageing
Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie
With its potential to engage a large audience and mark emerging social tendencies and with the rich narrative space that the seriality can bring, TV series can be a valuable cultural site through which to explore ageing as an experience in time. The Netflix's longest-running TV series Grace and Frankie (2015-2022) exhibits such potential, bringing together ageing and friendship into the popular cultural domain. Set in the contemporary US, the sho…
Challenging stereotypes? The older woman in the TV series Brothers & Sisters
Images of old age in YouTube
This article presents an analysis of the most viewed YouTube videos under the labels ‘old age’, ‘older age’ and ‘senior citizens’. As powerful sources that transmit cultural information which either perpetuates or undermines cultural stereotypes at a worldwide level, channels of information such as YouTube offer a valuable glimpse at those images of ageing and old age which are shared and consumed by nowadays viewers. This study offers an analysi…
Diane Keaton’s late films
This article offers a cultural analysis of Diane Keaton’s later career that teases out the age/gender interactions of the roles she has played past her mid-fifties. Drawing on both age and gender theories, our analysis of Keaton’s late-life characterizations explains the actor’s transformation into an icon of a positive and desirable form of female aging. At the same time, it observes the normative aspects of gendered old age that are also perpet…
The ‘Dys-Appearing’ Body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough
If the old body is usually read as a synonym of fragility and upcoming illness, even though not the case for most elderly citizens, the reality is that the longer we live, the increased probability of being affected by different illnesses cannot be eluded or denied. In Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough? the reader is invited to participate in the day-to-day routines of two aged female pro…
Narrating ageing
The ‘Dys-Appearing’ Body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough
If the old body is usually read as a synonym of fragility and upcoming illness, even though not the case for most elderly citizens, the reality is that the longer we live, the increased probability of being affected by different illnesses cannot be eluded or denied. In Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough? the reader is invited to participate in the day-to-day routines of two aged female pro…
Narrating ageing
Challenging stereotypes? The older woman in the TV series Brothers & Sisters
The complexities of female aging
When the Personal and the Historical Collide
In her ‘anti-memoir’ entitled Making It Up (2005), contemporary British novelist Penelope Lively rewrites key episodes of her life story and her personal history by fictionalising them. Taking the voice of different characters who were important in Lively's personal and social development, the author revises each of the eight personal and historical episodes that conform her ‘anti-memoir’. By distancing herself from her real self through fiction,…
Images of old age in YouTube
This article presents an analysis of the most viewed YouTube videos under the labels ‘old age’, ‘older age’ and ‘senior citizens’. As powerful sources that transmit cultural information which either perpetuates or undermines cultural stereotypes at a worldwide level, channels of information such as YouTube offer a valuable glimpse at those images of ageing and old age which are shared and consumed by nowadays viewers. This study offers an analysi…
Broadening the scope of ageing femininities on TV
In her work on women and the soap opera, Christine Geraghty argues that the extended form of this TV genre, both in time and consequent plots, has contributed to a wider representation of women in terms of their age, personality traits and social background. Two recent Catalan soaps, Ventdelplà (2005-10) and La Riera (2010—) have started to broaden the spectrum of the older female characters that were present in the first Catalan soap operas, and…
Romantic, Sexy, Creative or Simply Unruly
Given their popularity, television shows are especially powerful in the propagation of images of forms of identity. Accordingly, they can be regarded as an interesting and highly effective artistic and sociocultural vehicle through which representations of old people, and old women in particular, can be analysed and discussed. Despite the success of The Golden Girls in the 1980s and the exponential ageing of the baby-boom generation, which ought …
Exploring the path to death through Barnes's older characters
Is Manuela Carmena a politician? Spanish journalists and politicians in the spotlight
The purpose of this paper is to better understand how the participants involved in a specific radio interview use categorization to (re)produce a dominant discourse in the Spanish political arena. In this discourse, politicians are seen as untrustworthy, and certain journalists are portrayed as serving specific political interests. The interview needs to be analysed within its sociopolitical context. The wider context is one in which two new poli…
Ageing without remembering
The Pain and Irony of Death in Julian Barnes's Memoirs Nothing to Be Frightened Of and Levels of Life
Julian Barnes is one of the best-known contemporary British authors, not only for his taste for formal experimentation well-documented in the novels and short stories he has published since the 1980s, but also for his obsession with death. Despite the fact that death – as a prime concern expressed through his characters’ discussions, particularly when they are in their old age – has been present in most of Barnes fictional works, the topic become…
Diane Keaton’s late films
This article offers a cultural analysis of Diane Keaton’s later career that teases out the age/gender interactions of the roles she has played past her mid-fifties. Drawing on both age and gender theories, our analysis of Keaton’s late-life characterizations explains the actor’s transformation into an icon of a positive and desirable form of female aging. At the same time, it observes the normative aspects of gendered old age that are also perpet…
The wisdom of intergenerational relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s series Annals of the Western Shore ( Gifts, Voices and Powers )
Ursula Le Guin’s novels included in Annals of the Western Shore, published between the years 2004 and 2007, have as protagonists three young characters who, among uprising, rebellion and unfair states, have to find their place in Le Guin’s the Western Shore world. The three protagonists share a gift – the gift of remembering and telling stories – which is transmitted to two of them through an older man from the community where they live. Once the…
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction
Falcus, S., & Oró-Piqueras, M. (Eds.) (2023). Age and Ageing In Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction. (1st ed.) (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350230699
Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie
With its potential to engage a large audience and mark emerging social tendencies and with the rich narrative space that the seriality can bring, TV series can be a valuable cultural site through which to explore ageing as an experience in time. The Netflix's longest-running TV series Grace and Frankie (2015-2022) exhibits such potential, bringing together ageing and friendship into the popular cultural domain. Set in the contemporary US, the sho…
Mapping female ageing in the twenty-first century in Deborah Moggach's last novels
The Family, Generation and Kinship in the Television Series Years and Years
The TV drama series Years and Years (BBC/HBO, 2019), written by Russell T. Davies, is a speculative narrative that imagines a dystopian near-future (2019–34) which is clearly informed by then- (and still-) current concerns in the UK and wider world. This article considers the series’ reimagining of discourses of the family and kinship. Placing at its centre the multi-generational Lyons family, a collective marked by queerness in a variety of ways…
History (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (11 works) · History (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)