Diane Keaton’s late films: aging gracefully for the silvering screen
2022; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14680777.2022.2071318
ISSN1471-5902
AutoresNúria Casado-Gual, Maricel Oró-Piqueras,
Tópico(s)Media, Gender, and Advertising
ResumoThis article offers a cultural analysis of Diane Keaton’s later career that teases out the age/gender interactions of the roles she has played past her mid-fifties. Drawing on both age and gender theories, our analysis of Keaton’s late-life characterizations explains the actor’s transformation into an icon of a positive and desirable form of female aging. At the same time, it observes the normative aspects of gendered old age that are also perpetuated through Keaton’s late-life representations of aging femininity, and which troublingly reiterate Hollywood’s normative white heterosexuality.
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