Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema

Tony Tracy is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies and Co-founder of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway, Ireland. His research centres on film history and Irish cinema with a particular interest in masculinities. His monograph White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema was published in 2022.Michaela Schrage-Früh is Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Galway, Ireland. She is the author of Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian (2004) and Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination (2016). She has published widely on representations of gender and ageing in literature and culture, and is co-editor of five essay collections on the theme.

• Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema; 2. The Ageing of Men on Film: Concepts and Perspectives; 3. “Using the Difficulty”: Michael Caine as Ageing Rebel; 4. “A Porcelain Feeling”: Performance and Ageing in the Very Late Films of John Gielgud; 5. Ageing Disgracefully: Depardieu, Hallyday, Luchini, and Silver Linings in Recent French Cinema; 6. Jean Rochefort as Ageing Star: Masculinity and Masquerade; 7. From Mustang to 2CV: Ageing in Claude Lelouch’s Un homme et une femme Trilogy; 8. Ageing Male Melodrama and Post-Soviet Generational Conflict in Contemporary Estonian Cinema; 9. Restitution and Ageing Masculinities in Post-1989 Czech Cinema; 10. The (Im-)Possibility of Solidarity: Narratives of Ageing, Masculinity, and Intergenerational Relationships in the German Comedies We Are the New Ones (2014) and Granny Nanny (2020); 11. Ageing, Masculinity, and the Absurd in Toni Erdmann (2016); 12. “What Makes Us Alive”: The Ageing Artist in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (2013) and Youth (2015); 13. Masculinity, Creativity, and Successful Ageing in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory (2019); 14. Ageing Myths and Dark Romanticism in Albert Serra’s Story of My Death (2013); 15. Male Ageing and Retribution in Contemporary Action Thrillers 16. De-ageing and Denying the "Older Man" in Recent Hollywood; 17. Our Fathers: Ageing Masculinities and Dementia in Contemporary Film; Index