Ageing Appropriately: Postfeminist Discourses of Ageing in Contemporary Hollywood

Abstract

In this chapter, I will explore how Hollywood represents older women, faced as they are with the presence of some formidable ageing stars and with the growing awareness that mature women make up a significant part of the audience demographic. Mindful of E. Ann Kaplan’s assertion that ‘it is in the interest of patriarchal culture to keep alive the myth that, after menopause, women have no particular function and therefore can be passed over for young women who still depend on men’, 1 I will consider the combined impact of ageism and sexism in film in the context of popular postfeminist discourses of ageing. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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