Popularizing Dementia

Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness

• Author(s): Aagje Swinnen, Mark Schweda,
• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Pages: 410
• ISBN_10: 383942710X
  ISBN_13: 9783839427101
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Gerontology , Art / General , Art / History / Contemporary (1945-) , Art / Film & Video , History / Social History , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / European / German , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Media Studies , Philosophy / General , Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) , Art / Digital , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:...

How are individual and social ideas of late-onset dementia shaped and negotiated in film, literature, the arts, and the media? And how can the symbolic forms provided by popular culture be adopted and transformed by those affected in order to express their own perspectives? This international and interdisciplinary volume summarizes central current research trends and opens new theoretical and empirical perspectives on dementia in popular culture. It includes contributions by internationally renowned scholars from the humanities, social and cultural gerontology, age(ing) studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and bioethics.

Contributions by Lucy Burke, Marlene Goldman, Annette Leibing and others.