Bell J
English Department, New York City Technical College, City University of New York, Brooklyn 11201.
Gerontologist. 1992 Jun;32(3):305-11. doi: 10.1093/geront/32.3.305.
This article analyzes the images of aging presented in five of the prime-time television programs of 1989 most watched by the elderly: Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, and In the Heat of the Night, all of which have central elderly characters. An examination of the title sequences reveals that earlier television stereotypes of the elderly "as more comical, stubborn, eccentric, and foolish than other characters" have been replaced by more positive stereotypes of them as powerful, affluent, healthy, active, admired, and sexy.
本文分析了1989年最受老年人欢迎的五个黄金时段电视节目中呈现的衰老形象：《女作家与谋杀案》《黄金女郎》《马特洛克》《杰克和胖子》以及《炎热的夜晚》，所有这些节目都有核心老年角色。对片头的审视表明，早期电视节目中老年人“比其他角色更滑稽、固执、古怪和愚蠢”的刻板印象已被更积极的刻板印象所取代，即他们强大、富有、健康、活跃、受人钦佩且性感。
