In the Twilight of Their Lives?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Serial Narrative, Temporality and Aging: An Introduction 9
5. Between Screen and Reality: Negotiating the Effects of Old Age and Aging
6. “Time, Memory, and Aging on the Soaps” 25
7. Business as Usual 49
8. Heroine and/or Caricature? 69
9. Temporality and Aging: Experiments with Magic, Narrative and Genre
10. “Vampires Don’t Age, But Actors Sure Do” 89
11. In the Twilight of Their Lives? 109
12. Wait For It...! 137
13. Serial Cougars 159
14. Sex and Desire Through the Lens of Television Time
15. Still Looking 187
16. “You’ve Got Time” 207
17. “I’m Too Old to Pretend Anymore” 231
18. “Blanche and the Younger Man” 249
19. Epilog: The Social and Cultural Relevance of Studying Age in Television
20. Aging beyond the Rhetoric of Aging 269
21. Contributors 273