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Overlooked yet reassuringly familiar, the ageing woman has been central to the narrative landscape of British cinema. Historicising and contextualising enduring archetypes, this book establishes a taxonomy of female ageing in British cinema from the 1930s to the present day, encompassing bluestockings, battleaxes, witches, widow-women, duchesses, matriarchs and spinsters. These archetypes draw on well-established mythologies regarding ageing femininity. The prevalence of various iterations of female ageing is essential in understanding the nature of British cinema and how it developed to define itself under the shadow of Hollywood. The book examines the work of ageing British film stars including Ciceley Courtneidge, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith and Sybil Thorndike, in performing female ageing. Centred on close textual analysis of a broad range of films from over 80 years of British cinema, the book casts a fresh light on both the familiar and lesser known, including Blithe Spirit (1945), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968), and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012). The films are considered within the context of the broader historical factors which impacted on ageing feminin

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Author

Claire Mortimer

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781399509060

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Performing Arts