Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinemas

Organisers: Tony Tracy, Michaela Schrage-Frueh (NUI Galway)

Welcome & Introduction:

Tony Tracy

2:10 – 3:00

Panel 1

[Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh]

Tony Tracy (NUI Galway)

A Paltry Thing? Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary Cinemas

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

3:00-3:40

Panel 2

[Chair: José María Armengol]

Robert Shail, Leeds Beckett University

‘I look at ageing not as a problem, but as a privilege’: Michael Caine as Older Rebel

Phil Powrie, University of Surrey

Ageing Disgracefully: Hallyday, Luchini and Silver Linings in Recent French Cinema (pre-recorded talk)

Manuel Barbera Lopez, Universitat de València, Spain

’What makes us alive’: The Ageing Artist in Paolo Sorrentino’s Films

Adrian Gras-Velazquez, Smith College, USA

Queer Aging and Heterofuturity in the Films of Ventura Pons

3:40-4:20

Panel 3

[Chair: Roberta Maierhofer]

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

Concluding Remarks