This chapter explores the various forms that the ‘cougar’, the mature and sophisticated woman who dates younger men, takes in television and film in the new millennium, contrasting fictional representations with ‘real’ celebrity cougars currently ill the media spotlight. It also examines Cougar Town, the ABC sitcom launched in September 2009, starring Courteney Cox as a recently divorced 40-something woman who starts sleeping with younger men in order to replace her lost youth.
| Asset Type: | Publications |
| Collection: | Foreign Publications |
| Subject: | Humanities, Media and film studies, Media and communications, Media effects, Female celebrity, Ageing |
| Author: | Deborah Jermyn |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Publication Date: | February 2012 |
