Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinemas
Event Information
About this Event
Programme
*Keynotes run 15 mins
Welcome
2:00 – 2:50
Panel 1: Perspectives on Masculinity, Ageing and Movies
Michael Kimmel (SUNY, Stony Brook University, Emeritus) [keynote]
The Age(s) of Men: Images of Masculinities Across the Life Course
Timothy Shary, Eastern Florida State College [keynote]
De-Ageing and Denying the ‘Older Man’ in Recent Hollywood
Thomas Britt, George Mason University
Narratives of Ageing and Retribution
*+10 mins discussion
3:00-3:50
Panel 2: European Star Studies
Ginette Vincendeau, King's College London
Literature to the Rescue of Ageing Masculinity in French Cinema: the Case of Les Misérables
Phil Powrie, University of Surrey
Ageing disgracefully: Hallyday, Luchini and silver linings in recent French cinema
Robert Shail, Leeds Beckett University
'I look at ageing not as a problem, but as a privilege’: Michael Caine as Older Rebel
*+10 mins discussion
4:00 – 4:50
Panel 3: European Perspectives
Manuel Barbera Lopez, Universitat de València, Spain
’What makes us alive': The Ageing Artist in Paolo Sorrentino’s Films
Lisa-Nike Bühring, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Narratives of Older Age and Masculinity in We Are the New Ones (2019)
Michael Stewart, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Fatherhood, Melodrama and the Absurd in Toni Erdmann (Ade, 2016)
Teet Teinemaa, Tallinn University, Estonia
The (Hopeful) Potential of Old Age and Caring Masculinity in Recent Estonian Film
*+10 mins discussion
5:00-5:40
Panel 4: Queer Ageing
Jessy Simonini, University of Nantes, France
Massimo Girotti, Story of an Aging (and Queering) Masculinity
José María Armengol, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
The (Aging) (Gay) Male Body in Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory (2019)
Adrian Gras-Velazquez, Smith College, USA
Queer Aging and Heterofuturity in the Films of Ventura Pons
*+10 mins discussion
Concluding Remarks