Serializing Age

Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing practices and new media technologies have resulted in complex television narratives, in which experimental temporalities and revisions of narrative linearity and chronological time have become key features. As the first of its kind, this volume investigates how TV series as a powerful cultural medium shape representations of age and aging, such as in 'Orange Is The New Black', 'The Wire' or 'Desperate Housewives', to understand what it means to live in time.

Maricel Oró-Piqueras, born in 1977, is a member of research group Dedal-Lit and teaches literature, culture and English language at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. She is conducting research on British contemporary writers such as Julian Barnes, Deborah Moggach and Kazuo Ishiguro. Her articles have been published in journals such as the Journal of Aging Studies and the Journal of English Studies. Anita Wohlmann (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. As of November 2017, she will be Assistant Professor of Literature and Narrative Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research project 'Body and Metaphor: Narrative-Based Metaphor Analysis in Medical Humanities' is funded by the German Research Foundation (2017-2020). Her research focuses on age studies, American film and culture studies and medical humanities.