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“I am Mature and Established. There is No Success in That”: On Gendered Ageism in the Swedish Film Industry
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Media Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8389-5908
Number of Authors: 22023 (English)In: Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling off a Cliff? / [ed] Susan Liddy, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, p. 41-59Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

How issues of gender equality intertwine with age in the film industry is seldom addressed in studies focussing on film and gender equality behind the camera. It is symptomatic that when a recent gender equality report from the Swedish Film Institute (SFI, Vilka kvinnor? Jämställdhetsrapport 2019/20, https://www.filminstitutet.se/globalassets/_dokument/rapporter/vilka_kvinnor_jamstalldhetsrapport-2019-2020.pdf, 2020) set out to discuss age, the focus is on women actors “falling off the cliff” at the age of 40—as put by Gena Davies. This chapter presents a study based on qualitative interviews with women of various ages working behind the camera in the Swedish film industry. We discuss how these women speak about age and analyse their experiences using the concept of gendered ageism. A particular emphasis is put on two of Sweden’s most famous women directors, with major successes in the 1980s and 1990s—Suzanne Osten and Christina Olofson. This chapter also provides a more general discussion about how women of various ages reproduce a distinction between young and promising and mature and professional in their narration of how gendered age plays into their working conditions.

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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 41-59
Keywords [en]
Christina Olofson, Gendered ageism, Qualitative interviews, Suzanne Osten, Work life experiences
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Gender Studies Studies on Film
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-234947DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-18385-0_3Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85169382281ISBN: 978-3-031-18384-3 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-18385-0 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-234947DiVA, id: diva2:1909392
Available from: 2024-10-30 Created: 2024-10-30 Last updated: 2024-10-30Bibliographically approved

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