Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing: Freeze Frame by Deborah Jermyn, Susan Holmes

By Deborah Jermyn, Susan Holmes

This e-book reviews the connection among ladies, growing old and star. concentrating on an array of case stories and star/celebrity photos, it goals to check the robust, contradictory and occasionally celebratory ways that superstar tradition bargains a vital website for the modern and ancient building of discourses on getting older femininities.

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2014) ‘The “Pig”, the “Older Woman” and the “Catfight”: Gender, Celebrity and Controversy in a Decade of British Reality TV’, in B. ), Reality Gendervision: Sex and Gender on Transatlantic Reality TV (Durham and London: Duke University Press), pp. 37–53. Holmes, S. and Negra, D. (eds) (2011) In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (London: Continuum). Holmlund, C. (2010) ‘Celebrity, Ageing and Jackie Chan: Middle-Aged Asian in Transnational Action’, Celebrity Studies, 1(1), pp.

Heartbroken Betty Lou follows Cyrus to his yacht where he Reconfiguring Elinor Glyn 41 is holding a party and she accidently falls overboard. Cyrus jumps in to save her, the couple reunite and a romantic happy ending is assured. 4. These are titles of Glyn’s magazine articles in typescript as listed in RUA MS4059 Box 13 5. Christmas card postcard portrait to Betty Ross (1935–1938). jpg [accessed 12 November 2014]. Archived description of an item. References Anon (1925) ‘Age-Long Social System Very Hard on Women, Declares Elinor Glyn’, Los Angeles Examiner, 25 August, RUA 4059.

Dyer, R. (1986) Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society (London: Routledge). ESRC (2014) Festival of Social Sciences exhibition, ‘How to get to 100 – and enjoy it’, OXO Tower, London, October – November. Fairclough, K. (2012) ‘Nothing Less Than Perfect: Female Celebrity, Ageing and Hyper-Scrutiny in the Gossip Industry’, Celebrity Studies, 3(1), pp. 90–103. ForeverCeleb (2014) ‘20 Celebrities That Aged Terribly’, http://foreverceleb. com/20-celebrities-that-aged-terribly/, 25 May [accessed 17 February 2015].

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