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Hag Horror: Older Women in Film

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Baby Jane

Baby Jane was the film that kind of started a big trend in that kind of film. The actresses themselves, they were in mid 50s but yeah they were very much sort of considered over the hill at that point. It did help to revive their careers for a bit but then again they were just getting stereotype to these sort of roles. So we got to a point now where older women are allowed space in film in your opinion. I think people are talking now about menopause and it's much more open. These are things that we've never, never been talked about 20 years ago or 30 years ago. And definitely not like the 60s where women were expected to be invisible after

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