Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances

MaoHui Deng

Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances

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Abstract

Offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework
•Significantly broadens the field of work on ageing and cinema through a temporal perspective

•Interdisciplinary in focus, drawing from the fields of Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Gerontology, and Dementia Studies

•Focuses on eleven case study films about dementia from across a world of cinemas, from Hollywood to Asia

Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework. Analysing the aesthetics of films like A Moment to Remember (2004), Memories of Tomorrow (2006) and Happy End (2017), Deng provides new insights into our understanding of how ageing is temporally produced, presented, received and interrogated in and through cinema.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Edinburgh
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages	192
ISBN (Electronic)	9781474487009, 9781474486996
ISBN (Print)	9781474486972
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

Keywords

Dementia
Time
Ageing
Film

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Global inequalities
Creative Manchester

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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