Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer's Disease
von: Raquel Medina
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
ISBN: 9781137533715
Sprache: Englisch
231 Seiten, Download: 4596 KB
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| Acknowledgements | 6 | ||
| Contents | 8 | ||
| List of Figures | 9 | ||
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 11 | ||
| Bibliography | 22 | ||
| Chapter 2 Old Age and Alzheimer’s Disease in Film | 25 | ||
| 2.1 Old Age, Ageing, and Ageism | 25 | ||
| 2.2 Mapping Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease | 29 | ||
| 2.3 The Medicalisation of Dementia | 33 | ||
| 2.4 The Burden of Care and Personhood | 35 | ||
| 2.5 Dementia Narratives | 39 | ||
| 2.6 Alzheimer’s Disease in Film | 43 | ||
| Bibliography | 46 | ||
| Chapter 3 Intergenerational Interactions and Alzheimer’s Disease | 54 | ||
| 3.1 Dependency Theory, Intergenerational Support, and Care | 58 | ||
| 3.2 Family Interactions and Alzheimer’s Disease | 60 | ||
| 3.3 Grandson’s Solidarity in Pandora’s Box | 65 | ||
| 3.4 Father, Son, and Granddaughter in A Separation | 72 | ||
| 3.5 Conflict and Loneliness in Poetry | 77 | ||
| 3.6 Living in a Nursing Home: Identity Narratives and/or Narrative Identities | 81 | ||
| 3.6.1 Cortex | 82 | ||
| 3.6.2 Wrinkles | 86 | ||
| Bibliography | 96 | ||
| Chapter 4 Gender and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Power of Words, Herbs, Water, Veils, and Mountains | 104 | ||
| 4.1 Solidarity Among Women and Ecofeminism: The Good Herbs | 106 | ||
| 4.2 Old Cats and Matrophobia: Water and Motherhood | 116 | ||
| 4.3 Poetry: Seeing, Feeling, Writing, and Water | 119 | ||
| 4.4 Nation, Gender, and Loss | 127 | ||
| 4.4.1 Pandora’s Box | 128 | ||
| 4.4.2 A Separation: Gender and National Belonging | 132 | ||
| References | 139 | ||
| Chapter 5 Agency and Masculinity in Alzheimer’s Disease: Cortex (2008) and The Memory of a Killer (2003) | 143 | ||
| 5.1 Heroes and Villains: Crime Film and Masculinity | 144 | ||
| 5.2 The Male Star System and Ageing in the Film Industry | 146 | ||
| 5.3 Cortex: When Sherlock Meets Alzheimer’s Disease | 148 | ||
| 5.4 Cortex: The Detective-Hero’s Masculinity and the Femme Fatale | 158 | ||
| 5.5 The Memory of a Killer: Alzheimer’s Disease as Moral Rehabilitation Therapy | 162 | ||
| 5.6 Masculinity Versus Femininity: Childhood Versus Adulthood and Old Age in the Memory of a Killer | 169 | ||
| References | 174 | ||
| Chapter 6 Recovering the Past: Historical Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease | 178 | ||
| 6.1 Spain and Documentary Film | 180 | ||
| 6.1.1 A New Documentary Film and Postmemory | 184 | ||
| 6.1.2 Swimming | 188 | ||
| 6.1.3 Bucharest, the Lost Memory | 193 | ||
| 6.2 Remember: Holocaust, Dementia, and the Politics of Revenge | 197 | ||
| Bibliography | 208 | ||
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 212 | ||
| Bibliography | 220 | ||
| Index | 222 |