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Author Blaikie, Andrew.

Title Ageing and popular culture / Andrew Blaikie
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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 W'PONDS  305.260941 Bla/Aap  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction: foreign land -- 2. The history of old age: popular attitudes and policy perceptions -- 3. The transformation of retirement -- 4. Altered images -- 5. Exploring visual memory -- 6. Pictures at an exhibition: representations of age and generation -- 7. Beside the sea: collective visions, ageing, and heritage -- 8. Landscapes of later life -- 9. Conclusion: the struggle of memory against forgetting
Analysis Aged
Great Britain
Lifestyle and health
Overseas item
Popular culture
Population ageing
Retirement
Social networks
Stereotypes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index
Subject Older people in popular culture -- Great Britain.
Aging -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Older people in popular culture.
Older people -- Great Britain.
Aged.
Aging.
Sociology.
LC no. 98036035
ISBN 0521551501
0521645476 (paperback)
Other Titles Ageing & popular culture