#Talk
Never too old for the big performance
Where are the actresses over 60? In Hollywood, they have little chance of landing a major role. It's different in Europe: in recent years, the “Autumn Crocuses” have been quite prominent here. We take an entertaining look at the reasons why and how the public perceives them.
Sept. 28th. 2024
2:00-3:00 pm
Booth 3
Our project
As part of the Europe-wide joint project “AGE-C - Aging and Gender in European Cinema”, film scholars at Goethe University Frankfurt are investigating how gender relations are portrayed in European cinema and how this portrayal affects the audience. The production processes will also be examined: For instance, what role does European and state film funding play? How has the age structure and social affiliation of cinema audiences changed in recent years? Has the audience perhaps even aged with the actresses, while the majority of younger people no longer go to the cinema but prefer to stream at home?
Unser Team
AGE-C is a joint research project of the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, the Università degli Studi di Udine, the Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca in Romania and King's College, University of London. The project is funded in the Volkswagen Foundation's “Challenges for Europe: The Graying Continent” funding line with a sum of 1.5 million euros over four years and is one of a total of six projects in the funding line.