IN SEARCH OF A DISCOURSE ON AGING - THE ELDERLY ON TELEVISION

被引：50

作者：

BELL, J

机构：

[1] English Department, New York City Technical College, The City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, 11201

来源：

GERONTOLOGIST | 1992年 / 32卷 / 03期

关键词：

CHARACTER PRESENTATION; MASS MEDIA; STEREOTYPES; GENDER; TITLE SEQUENCES;

D O I：

10.1093/geront/32.3.305

中图分类号：

R4 [临床医学]; R592 [老年病学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100203 ; 100602 ;

摘要：

This article analyzes the images of aging presented in five of the prime-time television programs of 1989 most watched by the elderly: Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, and in the Heat of the Night, all of which have central elderly characters. An examination of the title sequences reveals that earlier television stereotypes of the elderly "as more comical, stubborn, eccentric, and foolish than other characters" have been replaced by more positive stereotypes of them as powerful, affluent, healthy, active, admired, and sexy.

引用

页码：305 / 311

页数：7

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