For female pop stars, whose star bodies and performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. This chapter explores the strategies used by Madonna to destabilise the compelling weight of expectations around ageing by employing resistance through persona re-invention and postmodern intertextuality. It also examines whether older women can compete in an ageist industry, or whether they should redefine it on their own terms
From a feminist perspective, mainstream media representations have always performed disciplinary fun...
If feminism and the fashion industry were once seen as adversaries, given how the strictures of Simo...
Abstract: The media’s obsession with a youthful appearance can have detrimental effects on older adu...
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualize...
This chapter examines the dynamics of performance in relation to ageing popular music stars and thei...
Kathleen Woodward describes how the ageing female body is both hyper-visible and invisible: mass med...
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexu...
Accounts of ageing often employ the metaphor of a mask and suggest that individuals a...
This chapter looks at the representational strategies applied to ageing femininities in popular medi...
International audienceMadonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates...
Age matters, but the matter of age; its materiality, configuration, articulation and representation,...
This thesis examines the intersection between representations of ageing femininities, empowerment, a...
Older women have never been so visible, or so problematised, in popular media culture as now, but wh...
Recently, older women have started becoming more visible in the media: in film, on television, and i...
On the 18 January, 2009, an online pop music fan posted over fifty outtake images from Madonna's pho...
From a feminist perspective, mainstream media representations have always performed disciplinary fun...
If feminism and the fashion industry were once seen as adversaries, given how the strictures of Simo...
Abstract: The media’s obsession with a youthful appearance can have detrimental effects on older adu...
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualize...
This chapter examines the dynamics of performance in relation to ageing popular music stars and thei...
Kathleen Woodward describes how the ageing female body is both hyper-visible and invisible: mass med...
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexu...
Accounts of ageing often employ the metaphor of a mask and suggest that individuals a...
This chapter looks at the representational strategies applied to ageing femininities in popular medi...
International audienceMadonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates...
Age matters, but the matter of age; its materiality, configuration, articulation and representation,...
This thesis examines the intersection between representations of ageing femininities, empowerment, a...
Older women have never been so visible, or so problematised, in popular media culture as now, but wh...
Recently, older women have started becoming more visible in the media: in film, on television, and i...
On the 18 January, 2009, an online pop music fan posted over fifty outtake images from Madonna's pho...
From a feminist perspective, mainstream media representations have always performed disciplinary fun...
If feminism and the fashion industry were once seen as adversaries, given how the strictures of Simo...
Abstract: The media’s obsession with a youthful appearance can have detrimental effects on older adu...