{"product_id":"9789819231584","title":"Ageing Asia: Multimedia Representations of Ageing and Older Adults in Asian Societies Volume II: Reconceptions of the Older Adult in Family and Society","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAsia-Pacific and Literature in English\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eAgeing Asia: Multimedia Representations of Ageing and Older Adults in Asian Societies\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eVolume II: Reconceptions of the Older Adult in Family and Society\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBernard Wilson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a critical examination of how widening age asymmetries across diverse Asian societies shape the representational economies through which older adults are constructed, mediated, and understood. Foregrounding the intersection of gender and age, it analyses the discursive positioning of older women in multimodal media environments and situates such portrayals within broader configurations of kinship, intergenerational obligation, and socio‑emotional labour. \u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThe essays assembled here draw on textual, visual, and audiovisual materials from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan to interrogate emergent narratives of ageing and to map shifting cultural, familial, and institutional expectations surrounding later life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBy engaging with demographic change, transformations in family structures, and evolving regimes of care, the collection elucidates the rearticulation of filial responsibility, economic dependency, and affective interdependence in rapidly ageing societies. It further considers how contemporary multimedia reframes the experience of decline, loss, and grief, and how these representational practices mediate broader ideological debates about the status, agency, and social value of older adults. Collectively, the contributions provide a theoretically grounded and empirically rich account of the cultural imaginaries through which ageing is negotiated in Asia, highlighting the profound reconfigurations of social relations and life-course expectations unfolding across the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernard Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, Japan and specialises in children’s literature and cinema, postcolonialism, and East\/West theory. He is widely published in these areas, and his work has appeared in leading international journals and book collections throughout the world. He is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Asian Family in Literature and Film Volumes I and II\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024); \u003cem\u003eOrientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West \u003c\/em\u003e(Routledge, 2021); and \u003cem\u003eAsian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National and Transnational Trajectories \u003c\/em\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSung-Ae Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Lecturer in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research areas range across Asian cinema, adaptation studies, trauma studies, Korean diaspora, and Korean literature, film and TV drama. She is the author of 40 book chapters and journal articles. Her recent publications include “Past in the present: film and TV drama, Korean families, and the palimpsestic Neo-Confucian family schema” (in \u003cem\u003eThe Asian Family in Literature and Film: Changing Perceptions in a New Age - East Asia\u003c\/em\u003e, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) and “Coming-of-age in South Korean Cinema” (in \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Children's Film\u003c\/em\u003e, OUP, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e06 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819231584\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452657701004,"sku":"9789819231584","price":161.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789819231584","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}