"This Handbook is a most timely contribution to aging studies. It distinguishes itself from others not only because it addresses a wide range of both literary (fiction, drama, and poetry) and film genres (movies, media, TV series, etc.) but also in its encompassing an equally large sample of cultural contexts and case studies, ranging from Europe to Hollywood to Latin America to Japan. Moreover, its intersectional focus allows us to see age as a fundamental yet relational category of analysis, which cannot and should not be separated from gender, sexuality, racialization, class, or functional diversity, amongst others. A must-read to anyone interested in aging, literature and film studies in their broadest sense. Highly recommended!" --Professor Josep M. Armengol, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Gender Studies, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
"Combining theoretically sophisticated discussions of current concepts in Age Studies with comprehensive analyses of a wide range of literary texts and films from different cultural backgrounds, this handbook provides stimulating insights into the ideological construction and embodied experience of ageing. A highly significant publication that convincingly connects scholarly expertise and political awareness." --
Professor Dr. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, Professor of German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany "This handbook is nothing but foundational for age and ageing studies. Taking stock of 30 years of research, it offers an invaluable state of the art of the discipline with a comprehensive section on genre, and a finely curated segment on themes and concepts. The handbook also manages to make space for what is at the core of humanities-based research, namely in-depth case studies of singular works of art. I am particularly pleased to see an inclusion of non-Western perspectives throughout the handbook. This book is a must-read." --
Dr. Anita Wohlmann, Associate Professor of Contemporary Anglophone Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
