This volume provides an essential analysis of older adults and representations of ageing in Asia. The collection focuses on increasing age disparities in many Asian societies, the ways in which they are represented historically and into the new millennium in Asian and global multimedia, and the effects such changes have on the societies in which they are taking place. Featuring texts and visual content from and about the Asian diaspora, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam, Volume I of this collection pays particular attention to the manifest ways in which age and national concerns and directives are linked, to the social and economic effects for super-ageing societies, to gender considerations in the representation of older adults, and to the ramifications of changing perceptions of ageing and older adults for future generations. How have traditional perceptions and contemporary transitions been represented, encouraged, or resisted in the multiple platforms of media, from film, literature, and digital streaming services to gaming, graphic fiction, news websites, print media, and advertising? Individually and collectively, these essays examine current perceptions of older adults in an Asian context and the directions that these may take into the 21st century.

Unveils changes and challenges to ageing Asian societies as represented in Asian and global multimedia Examines Asian multimedia beyond traditional Occidental hegemonic perspectives Provides key analyses of Asian cultures and societies from top scholars across the globe

Autorentext

Bernard Wilson teaches at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, Japan and specialises in children’s literature and cinema, postcolonialism, and East/West theory. He is widely published in these areas, and his work has appeared in leading international journals and book collections throughout the world. He is the co-editor of The Asian Family in Literature and Film Volumes I and II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024); Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West (Routledge, 2021); and Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National and Transnational Trajectories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Sung-Ae Lee is a Lecturer in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research areas range across Asian cinema, adaptation studies, trauma studies, Korean diaspora, and Korean literature, film and TV drama. She is the author of 40 book chapters and journal articles. Her recent publications include “Past in the present: film and TV drama, Korean families, and the palimpsestic Neo-Confucian family schema” (in The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Changing Perceptions in a New Age - East Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) and “Coming-of-age in South Korean Cinema” (in The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film, OUP, 2022).

Inhalt

1.The Age of Age: Practical and Ethical Considerations and Challenges Confronting an Older Asia - Sung-Ae Lee and Bernard Wilson.- Part 1. Age and Nation.- 2. Older Adults as Subjects of Unacknowledged Memories in Phm Thiên Ân's Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell and Phm Ngc Lân's Cu Li Never Cries - Tran Ngoc Hieu and Vu Thi Kieu Chinh.- 3. Curating the Self in Perfect Days: Beyond Senescence - Amy Borovoy and Gavin Whitelaw.- 4. Lost Utopian Dreams and the Crisis of Ageing in Miyazaki Hayao's The Boy and the Heron - Joshua Fagan.- 5. Fading Bonds in Neoliberal Bangladesh: Ageing, Care, and Family Conflicts in 1990s Dhallywood Cinema - Reffat Ferdous.- 6. Age and Ageing, War and Sexuality: Understanding Ageing and Queer Culture in Shyam Selvadurai's The Hungry Ghosts and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea - Kaustav Bakshi.- Part 2. Speak, Memory.- 7. The Thematic Nexus of Dementia and Old Age in East Asian Cinema - Sung-Ae Lee.- 8. Between Lost and Found: Dementia, Liminality, and Intergenerational Relationships in Malaysian Youth Literature - Sharifah Aishah Osman.- Part 3. The Cost of Living.- 9. Ageing on the Edge: The Social Neglect and Care of Older Adults in Japanese and Korean Cinema - Kyoung-suk Sung.- 10. Dystopian Ageing, Care, Gender and the Welfare State: A Critical Reading of Plan 75 - Meiko Makita and Scott Morris.- 11. The Silent Burden of Ageism: The Hidden Costs of the Journey of Ageing in Plan 75 - Da Seul Lee.- Part 4. The Older Female in Form and Function.- 12. The Wicked Witch of Southeast Asia: The Ageing Female Grotesque in Indonesian Horror Cinema - Mytha Eliva Veritasia and Satrya Wibawa.- 13. Queering Ageing: Gender, Race, and the Asian Older Actress in the Case of Youn Yuh-jung - Eun Ah Cho.