It's Friday I'm Invisible: Women Over 60 in Film & Cosmeticorexia in Tweenagers
New research says films are more likely to star a talking animal, or a leading man called Chris, than a woman over 60. This week we get into ageism in film and TV and the midlife women who vanish from our screens around 40, only to reappear as somebody's grandmother or a witchy old hag. Why do older women keep disappearing? Do reboots like Practical Magic and And Just Like That count as progress, or just nostalgia? We talk about what The Substance and Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl get right, who's missing from the writers' room, and whether things are finally starting to shift.
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