The look of ageing: Agelessness as post-feminist cool?: The aging female CEO in contemporary US TV series

Anne Jerslev

doi:10.7146/mediekultur.v33i63.24908

The look of ageing: Agelessness as post-feminist cool? The aging female CEO in contemporary US TV series

Department of Communication

Abstract

Recently, older women have started becoming more visible in the media: in film, on television, and in fashion and beauty ads. Taking as my case the representations of the ageing woman as successful CEO in three recent US television series, I address the kind of visibility that is embodied by the older female character in contemporary media. Drawing on discussions of ageing and the female body from cultural gerontology and cultural studies as well as theoretical discussions and empirical studies of representations of ageing women in film and television, I address the notions of agelessness and age appropriateness in relation to the three female CEOs and ask whether the characters represent alternative media images of the older female or merely a new form of ageism.

Original language	English
Journal	MedieKultur
Volume	33
Issue number	63
Pages (from-to)	67-84
Number of pages	18
ISSN	0900-9671
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v33i63.24908
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
older women
gender and age
TV series
aging and the body

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