[Commlist] Ageing Masculinities in Film and Literature: publications

we are delighted to let you know that two volumes from our recent 
MascAge research project on Ageing Masculinities in Film and Literature 
are now available in *paperback*. We hope they may be of interest and 
value to others working in the field.

*Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema *

https://www.routledge.com/Ageing-Masculinities-in-Contemporary-European-and-Anglophone-Cinema/Tracy-Schrage-Fruh/p/book/9781032306636 


Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

https://www.routledge.com/Ageing-Masculinities-in-Irish-Literature-and-Visual-Culture/Schrage-Fruh-Tracy/p/book/9781032146904 


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Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema

This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are 
constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema.

With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the primarily 
European focus of the book is juxtaposed with analysis of the social and 
cultural constructions of manhood and the "anti-ageing" impulses of male 
stardom in contemporary Hollywood. These themes are inflected in 
different ways throughout the volume, from considering how old age is 
not the monolithic and unified life stage with which it is often framed, 
to exploring issues of queerness, sexuality, and asexuality, as well as 
themes such as national cinema and dementia.

Offering a diverse and multifaceted portrait of ageing and masculinity 
in contemporary cinema, this book will be of interest to scholars and 
students of film and screen studies, gender and masculinity studies, and 
cultural gerontology.

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and 
Anglophone Cinema
Tony Tracy and Michaela Schrage-Früh

2. The Ageing of Men on Film: Concepts and Perspectives
Michael Kimmel

3. “Using the Difficulty”: Michael Caine as Ageing Rebel
Robert Shail

4. “A Porcelain Feeling”: Performance and Ageing in the Very Late Films 
of John Gielgud
Jonathan Stubbs

5. Ageing Disgracefully: Depardieu, Hallyday, Luchini, and Silver 
Linings in Recent French Cinema
Phil Powrie

6. Jean Rochefort as Ageing Star: Masculinity and Masquerade
Philip Dine

7. From Mustang to 2CV: Ageing in Claude Lelouch’s Un homme et une femme 
Trilogy
Éamon Ó Cofaigh

8. Ageing Male Melodrama and Post-Soviet Generational Conflict in 
Contemporary Estonian Cinema
Teet Teinemaa

9. Restitution and Ageing Masculinities in Post-1989 Czech Cinema
Matthew Sweney

10. The (Im-)Possibility of Solidarity: Narratives of Ageing, 
Masculinity, and Intergenerational Relationships in the German Comedies 
We Are the New Ones (2014) and Granny Nanny (2020)
Lisa-Nike Bühring

11. Ageing, Masculinity, and the Absurd in Toni Erdmann (2016)
Michael Stewart

12. “What Makes Us Alive”: The Ageing Artist in Paolo Sorrentino’s The 
Great Beauty (2013) and Youth (2015)
Manuel Barberá

13. Masculinity, Creativity, and Successful Ageing in Pedro Almodóvar’s 
Pain and Glory (2019)
Heather Jerónimo

14. Ageing Myths and Dark Romanticism in Albert Serra’s Story of My 
Death (2013)
Esther Zaplana

15. Male Ageing and Retribution in Contemporary Action Thrillers
Thomas Britt

16. De-ageing and Denying the "Older Man" in Recent Hollywood
Timothy Shary

17. Our Fathers: Ageing Masculinities and Dementia in Contemporary Film
Tony Tracy

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Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and 
visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and 
documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from 
the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how 
a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or 
challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so, they trace a shift from 
depictions of authority figures - often symbolising patriarchal 
dominance and oppression - to more nuanced, complex, and heterogeneous 
explorations of older men’s embodied subjectivities and vulnerabilities. 
Exploring artists and writers such as Seán Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa 
Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate 
O’Brien, John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, 
Anne Griffin, and Claire Keegan, the chapters in this book attend to the 
symbolic as well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural 
expression.



        Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and 
Visual Culture

        Michaela Schrage-Früh and Tony Tracy

        DRAMA

        Taking the "Black Stick": Ageing Husbands and Fathers in the 
Plays of J. M. Synge and Teresa Deevy

        Mária Kurdi

        "Are all the monks old men?" Ageing and the Male Monastic 
Community in Brian Friel’s The Enemy Within

        Giovanna Tallone

        　

        Father Ireland on Stage: Representations of Social Change and 
Ageing Masculinities in Crisis

        Ciara L. Murphy

        POETRY

        Poetics at the Limit: Embodiment, Masculinities, and Ageing in 
Samuel Beckett’s Early Poetry Collection Echo’s Bones

        Heike Hartung

        Masculinity, Ageing, and Midlife Crisis in the Poetry of Paul 
Muldoon and Paul Durcan

        Anne Karhio

        Not Sailing to Byzantium: Aged Masculinities and Latour’s 
Matters of Concern in the Late Works of Irish Male Poets

        Katarzyna Ostalska

        　

        FICTION

        "That the Youth May Throw Us Aside": Fatherhood, Ageing 
Masculinities, and the Politics of Insecurity in Mid-Twentieth-Century 
Irish Fiction

        Loic Wright

        Stuck in the Old Times: A Male-character Analysis on Three 
Irish Novels Through Corpus Stylistics

        Cassandra S. Tully

        Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville’s The Sea, 
Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture and Anne Griffin’s When All is Said

        Michaela Schrage-Früh

        "Caught suddenly by the land shifting": Ageing Masculinity and 
Rural Ireland in Recent Irish Short Fiction

        Orlaith Darling

        　

        "A bridge to nowhere": Arrested Development, Trauma, 
Liminality, and the Ageing Irish Exile in Bernard MacLaverty’s Midwinter 
Break

        Clare Brannigan

        "Shades of Masculinities": Midlife and Caring Masculinity in 
Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones

        Brenda O’Connell

        Colm Tóibín and Henry James: Portrait of an Ageing Master

        Heather Ingman

        　

        VISUAL CULTURE

        Seán Keating’s Ireland – the Land of Old Men

        Katarzyna Kociołek

        Ageing Masculinities and Irish Traditional Music on Screen

        Verena Commins and Méabh Ní Fhuartháin

        Changing the Picture: Older Men’s Responses to Media 
Representations of Ageing in an Irish Context

Margaret O’Neill and Áine Ní Léime


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