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Ageing on display after #MeToo
Why are older girls, in all their complicated sexual and social lives, so hardly ever depicted on our screens? Researchers at Swansea College are in search of views on the depiction of older girls within the films.
‘Ageing on display’ is a brand new analysis undertaking from Dr Lisa Smithstead, Senior Lecturer in Movie Research at Swansea College. The undertaking explores the illustration of ageing and older girls on display within the wake #MeToo and #TimesUp – actions which considerably modified the discourse round girls and movie tradition from 2017 onwards.
The undertaking hosted its first occasion, a free screening and discussion on the Taliesin of the 2022 comedy, Good Luck to you Leo Grande, staring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, in June.
The film tells the story of retired widow Nancy Stokes who hires a younger intercourse employee known as Leo Grande within the hope of having fun with an evening of enjoyment and self-discovery after an unfulfilling married life. This movie raises massive questions on need, energy and ageing. The ‘Ageing on Display screen’ researchers need to hear viewers’ responses and views on ageing, sexuality, girls’s lives and the roles older girls get to play within the films.
Dr Lisa Smithstead, main on the ‘Ageing on Display screen’ analysis undertaking mentioned:
“#MeToo put problems with gender, energy and company on the map, and ageing and older stars have been on the motion’s centre.
This seems like an important second to take inventory of what has and hasn’t modified since #MeToo exploded as a viral motion in 2017. Are there extra roles for older girls? Are older girls allowed to take main roles? Are their storylines any extra dynamic or thrilling than in earlier intervals?
“My analysis to this point means that it is a actually thrilling time for older girls in cinema. We’re seeing main stars taking up various and attention-grabbing roles into their late 40s and 50s whereas in earlier many years their alternatives would have been fairly restricted. We now have begun producing new information about the place older girls seem – in what genres, what character sorts – we will begin to paint a clearer image of how older girls’s experiences are being represented within the movies we watch.”
‘Ageing on Display screen’ seeks to seize how these actions have affected the best way older girls are represented in cinema by inspecting the highest 100 grossing movies on the UK field workplace yearly since 2017.
It goals to light up the place, and in what types, ageing and older feminine characters seem within the films which were most seen on UK cinema screens throughout the final seven years. The undertaking takes an intersectional method, contemplating how age intersects with ethnicity, nationality and sophistication in addition to gender within the illustration of older girls on modern UK cinema screens.
The objective of the undertaking is to create new sources which can assist paint a clearer image of older and ageing girls in modern standard movie tradition. We plan to debate these points with audiences in Wales and the UK about what a greater and brighter future for ageing and older girls on display would possibly seem like.
The screening Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (taliesinartscentre.co.uk) was launched by Dr. Lisa Smithstead.
Viewers then attended a submit screening dialogue. They have been in a position to share their ideas and concepts about older girls on display, and chat with Kelly Barr from Age Cymru.
Additionally they interacted with exhibition supplies from the undertaking highlighting among the key points dealing with ageing and older girls in modern standard cinema. Extra data is now obtainable on the undertaking web site Ageing on screen after #MeToo (wordpress.com)
It’s also possible to learn Dr Lisa Smithstead’s earlier analysis into cinema and feminism
Dr Lisa Smithstead – Swansea University together with her current article on Kate Winslet: ‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image (tandfonline.com)
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures – YouTube