The Golden Bachelor: Age and Romance in Contemporary Reality Television.

IF 1.5 4区医学 Q3 GERONTOLOGY

Journal of Gerontological Social Work Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI:10.1080/01634372.2024.2413067

Jay Kayser, Rita X Hu, Anwesha Kundu

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The Golden Bachelor completed its first season in late 2023. Its companion show, The Golden Bachelorette premiered in September of 2024. The reality dating franchise features contestants over the age of 60 and represents an advance in the visibility of older adults in popular media, particularly the dating show genre, while also perpetuating age-related stereotypes. This review will focus on The Golden Bachelor and how it brought aging and associated conversations about dating, intimacy, and grief into popular discourse. While the show significantly revises how older adults are portrayed in popular media, it tempers this potentially subversive move by doubling down on its other socially conventional elements - beauty, monogamy, able-bodiedness, and traditional family values. The Golden Bachelor represents a step forward in visibility of older adults while also being a reminder of the problematic ways that aging is portrayed in popular media. It opens opportunities for dialogue and learning but also reveals the narrow scope of identity that reality television is prepared to depict. Ultimately, The Golden Bachelor revealed both a widespread interest in popular media that engages substantively with older adults and a still-unfulfilled need for this representation to be comprehensive, diverse, and inclusive.

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黄金单身汉当代真人秀中的年龄与浪漫。

黄金单身汉》第一季于 2023 年底完成。其配套节目《黄金单身汉》于 2024 年 9 月首播。该交友真人秀以 60 岁以上的参赛者为主角，代表了老年人在大众媒体（尤其是交友节目类型）中能见度的提升，同时也延续了与年龄相关的刻板印象。本评论将重点关注《黄金单身汉》，以及它如何将老龄化以及与之相关的约会、亲密关系和悲伤等话题带入大众话题。虽然该节目极大地改变了大众媒体对老年人的描述，但它通过加倍强调其他社会传统元素--美貌、一夫一妻制、健全和传统家庭价值观--来缓和这一潜在的颠覆性举动。黄金单身汉》在提高老年人知名度方面向前迈进了一步，同时也提醒人们大众传媒对老龄化的描述存在问题。它为对话和学习提供了机会，但同时也揭示了真人秀节目准备描绘的狭隘身份范围。最终，《黄金单身汉》既揭示了大众媒体对老年人进行实质性报道的广泛兴趣，也揭示了对这种全面、多样和包容的表现形式仍未满足的需求。

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Journal of Gerontological Social Work Multiple-

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4.00

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3.10%

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期刊介绍： With over 30 years of consistent, quality articles devoted to social work practice, theory, administration, and consultation in the field of aging, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work offers you the information you need to stay abreast of the changing and controversial issues of today"s growing aging population. A valuable resource for social work administrators, practitioners, consultants, and supervisors in long-term care facilities, acute treatment and psychiatric hospitals, mental health centers, family service agencies, community and senior citizen centers, and public health and welfare agencies, JGSW provides a respected and stable forum for cutting-edge insights by experts in the field.