Foreword to Age and Ageing in European and World Cinema(s) Boglárka Angéla FARKAS and Andrea VIRGINÁS |
Agnès Varda’s Late Style: Autobiography and Melancholy of Ageing Alborz MAHBOOBKHAH Abstract: This article examines the distinctive trajectory of late-career creativity in Agnès Varda’s films, situating her final works within a broader inquiry into ageing, autobiography, and self-reflexivity in the French New Wave generation. Departing from canonical models of “old age style&rdquo... Read More Keywords: Agnès Varda, ageing and cinema, French New Wave, autobiography, gay melancholy, allegory |
The Face of Horror: Ageing Anxiety in Horror Cinema and the ‘Hag Horror’ Tradition Serhat ERDEM Abstract: With the ageing of contemporary societies, anxieties surrounding old age and bodily decline have become increasingly visible in popular culture, particularly within horror cinema. While feminist film Keywords: Horror cinema, ageing anxieties, Hag horror, Feminist film theory, Monstrous-feminine, Patriarchal ageism |
Rewriting Female Ageing in 2020s Cinema: Ageing, Care, and the Post-Pandemic Context Julieta A. RODRIGUEZ Abstract: Ageing has surged as a central theme in the cultural landscape of the 2020s, becoming prominent Keywords: female ageing, 2020s cinema, embodiment, post-pandemic, intergenerational care, film studies, gender representation, cultural ageing |
Olena GEPPER Abstract: This article explores the striking absence of migrant caregivers in contemporary European cinema, despite their essential role in sustaining ageing societies. Drawing on the AGE-C dataset (Ageing and Gender in European Cinema), which catalogues over 6,000 films produced between 2014 and 2023, it investigate... Read More Keywords: European cinema; ageing; migrant caregivers; representation; care work; gender; transnational labour; cultural invisibility; digital humanities; AGE-C dataset; ethics of care; social inequality |
Adrien VALGALIER Abstract: This article aims to challenge reductive assumptions about ageing and nostalgia by examining how contemporary French cinema represents later life through the framework of the life review, focusing in particular on Guy (Alex Lutz, 2018) and La Belle Époque (Nicolas Bedos, 2019). Rather than assuming t... Read More Keywords: Nostalgia; Ageing; Life Review; Old Age; French Cinema; Artificial; Past |
Temporal Loitering: Psychological Ageing and Animated Flânerie Raúl JAMBRINA ROJO Abstract: This article proposes reimagining the figure of the flâneur, traditionally associated with youth, disaffection, and urban modernity, from the perspective of psychological ageing and its affective spatialities. I argue that animation, due to its formal plasticity, metamorphosis, and temporal elasticity... Read More Keywords: Flânerie; Animation Studies; Psychological Ageing; Spatial Temporality; Cultural Gerontology |
The Messiah of Youth: Ageism, Power, and Space in Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024) Pablo GÓMEZ-MUÑOZ Abstract: This article analyzes Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve, 2021) and especially Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024), focusing on how cultural age, gender and the different planetary backgrounds of the key characters intersect. The article argues that both films adopt what Kathleen Woodward calls “the... Read More Keywords: Dune: Part One, Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve, science fiction, space, age, sight, youth |
Temporal Bodies: Ageing, Lieux de Mémoire, and the Poetics of Delay in Contemporary Cinema Ion INDOLEAN Abstract: Building on Bazin’s ontology of the photographic image, this article argues that cinema is not merely an archive of chronological time but a practice that performs time: it withholds, returns, and re-situates experience. Two theoretical co-ordinates guide the analysis. First, Pierre Nora’s lieux... Read More Keywords: Ageing; temporality; lieux de mémoire; delayed cinema; embodiment; gender; memory; contemporary cinema; Mulvey; Nora |
Make Cultural Studies Greta Again. Old and New in Cultural Science Doru POP Abstract: Starting from John Hartley’s book Make/Believe: We and They on a Digital Planet (2025), the paper discusses the transition from “cultural studies 1.0” towards a “culture 2.0” and the need to develop new methods and methodologies in cultural studies today, which can provide a fr... Read More Keywords: make-believe, cultural studies, zombie semiotic, digital semiosphere |
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