Staging Age

1. Introduction
Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, Leni Marshall

Section I. Film

2. “That Younger, Fresher Woman”: Old Wives for New (1918) and Hollywood’s Cult of Youth
Heather Addison

3. The Unconscious of Age: Performances in Psychoanalysis, Film, and Popular Culture
E. Ann Kaplan

4. Old Cops: Occupational Aging in a Film Genre
Neal King

Section II. Theatre

5. Performing Female Age in Shakespeare’s Plays
Janet Hill, Valerie Barnes Lipscomb

6. Mediating Childhood: How Child Spectators Interpret Actors’ Bodies in Theatrical Media
Jeanne Klein

7. “What Age am I Now? and I?”: The Science of the Aged Voice in Beckett’s Plays
Ruth Pe Palileo

8. Molière’s Miser, Old Age, and Potency
Allen Wood

Section III. Dance

9. Old Dogs, New Tricks: Intergenerational Dance
Jessica Berson

10. Age and the Dance Artist
Barbara Dickinson

11. Still Tapping after All These Years: Age and Respect in Tap Dance
Wendy Oliver

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Dance