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" Cinematic representations of Alzheimer's Disease / "
Raquel Medina.
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840919
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Medina, Raquel
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Cinematic representations of Alzheimer's Disease /\ Raquel Medina.
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London :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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1 online resource :: illustrations
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1137533714
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1137533706
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9781137533708
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Old Age and Alzheimer's Disease in Film; 2.1 Old Age, Ageing, and Ageism; 2.2 Mapping Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease; 2.3 The Medicalisation of Dementia; 2.4 The Burden of Care and Personhood; 2.5 Dementia Narratives; 2.6 Alzheimer's Disease in Film; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Intergenerational Interactions and Alzheimer's Disease; 3.1 Dependency Theory, Intergenerational Support, and Care; 3.2 Family Interactions and Alzheimer's Disease; 3.3 Grandson's Solidarity in Pandora's Box
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3.4 Father, Son, and Granddaughter in A Separation3.5 Conflict and Loneliness in Poetry; 3.6 Living in a Nursing Home: Identity Narratives and/or Narrative Identities; 3.6.1 Cortex; 3.6.2 Wrinkles; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Gender and Alzheimer's Disease: The Power of Words, Herbs, Water, Veils, and Mountains; 4.1 Solidarity Among Women and Ecofeminism: The Good Herbs; 4.2 Old Cats and Matrophobia: Water and Motherhood; 4.3 Poetry: Seeing, Feeling, Writing, and Water; 4.4 Nation, Gender, and Loss; 4.4.1 Pandora's Box; 4.4.2 A Separation: Gender and National Belonging; References
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Chapter 5 Agency and Masculinity in Alzheimer's Disease: Cortex (2008) and The Memory of a Killer (2003)5.1 Heroes and Villains: Crime Film and Masculinity; 5.2 The Male Star System and Ageing in the Film Industry; 5.3 Cortex: When Sherlock Meets Alzheimer's Disease; 5.4 Cortex: The Detective-Hero's Masculinity and the Femme Fatale; 5.5 The Memory of a Killer: Alzheimer's Disease as Moral Rehabilitation Therapy; 5.6 Masculinity Versus Femininity: Childhood Versus Adulthood and Old Age in the Memory of a Killer; References
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Chapter 6 Recovering the Past: Historical Memory and Alzheimer's Disease6.1 Spain and Documentary Film; 6.1.1 A New Documentary Film and Postmemory; 6.1.2 Swimming; 6.1.3 Bucharest, the Lost Memory; 6.2 Remember: Holocaust, Dementia, and the Politics of Revenge; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema. Even though Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is a global health issue, it is not perceived or represented homogenously around the world. Contrary to very well-known mainstream films, the films discussed do not focus on the negative aspects normally associated with Alzheimer's disease, but on the importance of portraying the perspective of the persons living with Alzheimer's and their personhood. Similarly, this book analyses how the films use Alzheimer's as a trope to address issues relating to different areas of life and society such as, for example, family matters, intergenerational relationships, gender issues, national traditions versus global modernity, and caring for people with dementia. By examining an array of films, from crime fiction to documentary, that each present non-stigmatising representations of Alzheimer's disease, this in-depth study ultimately demonstrates the power of culture in shaping meaning.
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Alzheimer's disease-- In motion pictures.
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Film theory criticism.
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Films, cinema.
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Historiography.
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Historiography.
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Motion pictures.
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Neurology clinical neurophysiology.
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Neurology.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Reference.
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791.4364/6168311
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PN1995.9.A494
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