Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing

Chapter 1 Introduction: A Timely Intervention — Unravelling the Gender/Age/Celebrity Matrix

Chapter 2 Here, There and Nowhere: Ageing, Gender and Celebrity Studies

Chapter 3 Reconfiguring Elinor Glyn: Ageing Female Experience and the Origins of the ‘It Girl’

Chapter 4 Bette Davis: Acting and Not Acting Her Age

Chapter 5 Moms Mabley and Whoopi Goldberg: Age, Comedy and Celebrity

Chapter 6 ‘Je joue le rôle d’une petite vieille, rondouillarde et bavarde, qui raconte sa vie…’ [‘I am playing the role of a little old lady, pleasantly plump and talkative, who is telling the story of her life…’]: The Significance of Agnès Varda’s Old Lady Onscreen

Chapter 8 From the Woman Who ‘Had It All’ to the Tragic, Ageing Spinster: The Shifting Star Persona of Jennifer Aniston

Chapter 9 ‘Don’t Wear Beige — It Might Kill You’: The Politics of Ageing and Visibility in Fabulous Fashionistas

Chapter 10 The Best Exotic Graceful Ager: Dame Judi Dench and Older Female Celebrity

Chapter 11 ‘I’m Not Past My Sell By Date Yet!’: Sarah Jane’s Adventures in Postfeminist Rejuvenation and the Later-Life Celebrity of Elisabeth Sladen

Chapter 12 ‘Call the Celebrity’: Voicing the Experience of Women and Ageing through the Distinctive Vocal Presence of Vanessa Redgrave