Animation and Affirmative Aging in Ignacio Ferreras’s Arrugas

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  • Jennifer Nagtegaal University of British Columbia

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https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i2.6132

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This paper enters the ongoing debate on the portrayal of old age in Ignacio Ferreras’s animated feature Arrugas (Spain, 2011). My approach to a new understanding of Ferreras’s film is two-fold: first, I engage with the often-overlooked animation to ask how it too contributes to the cinematic vision of later life; second, I aim to liberate Arrugas from the predominant binary discourses of successful aging/aging-as-decline often employed to understand the film. Drawing on theories of animation and aging, I highlight how Arrugas reflects later life as more complex, a notion central to Linn Sandberg’s theory of affirmative old age.

 

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2021-11-23

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