Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer's Disease

• Main Author: Medina, Raquel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-History.; Motion pictures.; Historiography.; Neurology .; Film History.; Film Theory.; Memory Studies.; Neurology.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Old Age and Alzheimer's Disease in Film
• 3. Intergenerational Interactions and Alzheimer's Disease
• 4. Gender and Alzheimer's Disease: The Power of Words, Herbs, Water, Veils and Mountains
• 5. Agency and Masculinity in Alzheimer's Disease: Cortex (2008) and The Memory of a Killer (2003)
• 6. Recovering the Past: Historical Memory and Alzheimer's Disease
• 7. Conclusion. .