Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging
Affiliation of Author, Researcher, or Creator
Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Department
Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Author(s)
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Resource Type
Book
Publication, Publisher or Distributor
McFarland Publishing
Publication Date
1-25-2019
Brief Description
As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as either eccentric harbingers of doom—the crone who stops at nothing to restore her youth, the ancient ancestor who haunts the living—or as frail victims. This collection of new essays explores how various filmic portrayals of aging, as an inescapable horror destined to overtake us all, reflect our complex attitudes toward growing old, along with its social, psychological and economic consequences.
Keywords
Horror, film, aging, elderly
Preferred Citation Style
Chicago Manual