Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms

Franziska Röber (TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

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Bloomsbury Academic
24 July 2025

Film, TV & Radio; Television; Psychology of ageing

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.

Focusing on three representative sitcoms - Waiting for God, The Old Guys and Vicious - it demonstrates the ways in which sitcoms specifically enable and restrict representations of later life sexualities. Tracing how transgressive portrayals of sexually active older adults are couched in comedic terms, it opens up new critical perspectives on later life sexualities that will critically inform public debates and academic research – in Britain and beyond.

By: Franziska Röber (TUD Dresden University of Technology Germany)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350473508
ISBN 10: 1350473502
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 24 July 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1. Opening Sequence Chapter 2. The (Dis-)Advantages of the Sitcom Chapter 3. Waiting for God and Sexualities Chapter 4. Homosociality and Later Life (Male) Sexualities Chapter 5. Vicious and Queer Sexualities Chapter 6. Closing Sequence Bibliography

Franziska Röber is Research Associate at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

Reviews for Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms

This highly rewarding book offers fresh insights for any reader concerned with ageing, sexuality and screen representations. Offering a well theorized and thoughtful study of British sitcoms, the book’s explorations of comedic performance effectively refute the reduction of sexuality to heteronormative penile penetration and highlights a wide range of physical intimacies enacted between and within gender categories that effectively transgress established expectations of older characters. -- Dr Josephine Dolan, Independent Scholar, Founding Member of ENAS (European Network of Aging Studies), NANAS (North American Network of Aging Studies) and WAM (Women, Ageing and Media Research Group)