Pt. 1. Cultural Urgencies -- 1. Trapped in the New Time Machines -- 2. True Secrets of Being Aged by Culture -- 3. "The Xers" versus "the Boomers": A Contrived War -- 4. Perilous Parenting: The Deaths of Children and the Fear of Aging-into-the-Midlife -- 5. The High Costs of Middle-Ageism -- Pt. 2. Theorizing Age Resistantly -- 6. What Is Age Studies? -- 7. Age Identity Revisited -- 8. From Life Storytelling to Age Autobiography -- 9. Acting Age on Stage: Age-Appropriate Casting, the Default Body, and Valuing the Property of Having an Age -- 10. Age Studies as Cultural Studies: Beyond Slice-of-Life.