Fear of Aging

In the genre of horror, elderly people are often used as a trope to evoke both a fear of death and a fear of aging. Old age is therefore equated with bodily, mental, or social decline. The contributors of this book investigate what exactly we are afraid of when we posit old age as a source of horror...

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Natura:	Online
Lingua:	inglese
Pubblicazione:	transcript Verlag 2025
Soggetti:	Horror Gothic Aging Medical Humanities Film Literature Aging Studies Culture Literary Studies Medicine Popular Culture thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSP Age groups and generations::JBSP4 Age groups: the elderly thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues
Accesso online:	ONIX_20250310_9783839461952_5
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