Popularizing Dementia: Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness

Published by transcript Verlag 2015

Popularizing Dementia

Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness

Edited by: Aagje Swinnen and Mark Schweda

Volume 6 in the series Aging Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839427101

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About this book

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.

Author information

Aagje Swinnen (Dr.) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Art of Maastricht University, Netherlands.
Mark Schweda (Dr.) is Research Associate at the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany.

Reviews

»Die insgesamt 17 Artikel reflektieren eine beeindruckende Bandbreite von Perspektiven, Praktiken und Methoden, die gängige Narrative von Demenz als tragischem Verlust oder als 'lost self' hinterfragen. Diesen stereotypen Erzählungen stellt der Band vielschichtige und lebensbejahende Alternativen entgegen, die wir dringend brauchen.«
Anita Wohlmann, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2 (2017)

»Dieser reichhaltige Band macht von neuem aufmerksam und gibt sowohl der Forschung als auch politischem Engagement wertvolle Anregungen.«
Susanne K. Christ, KULT_online, 46 (2016)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Popularizing dementia. Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness Aagje Swinnen and Mark Schweda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
I. LITERARY FICTION
The locus of our dis-ease. Narratives of family life in the age of Alzheimer’s Lucy Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Deconstructing the American family. Figures of parents with dementia in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and A.M. Homes’ May We Be Forgiven Sadie Wearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Purging the world of the Whore and the horror. Gothic and apocalyptic portrayals of dementia in Canadian fiction Marlene Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Narrating the limits of narration. Alzheimer’s disease in contemporary literary texts Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
The ‘terrifying question mark’. Dementia, fiction, and the possibilities of narrative Naomi Kruger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
II. ART, ARTISTIC APPROACHES, AND FILM
Dementia on the canvas. Art and the biopolitics of creativity Scott Selberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Cultural projection of dementia in the Reminiscence Museum. Dynamics of extrapolation Elena Bendien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Opening Minds through Art. Students’ constructions of people with dementia Oliver R. Hautz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
‘Zip!’ Dementia materialized in clothing design Sonja Iltanen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Challenging representations of dementia in contemporary Western fiction film. From epistemic injustice to social participation Andrea Capstick, John Chatwin and Katherine Ludwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Intercorporeal relations and ethical perception. Portrayals of Alzheimer’s disease in Away from Her and En sång för Martin Lisa Folkmarson Käll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
III. MEDIA DISCOURSES AND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS
Dementia in the making. Early detection and the body/brain in Alzheimer’s disease Annette Leibing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
The meanings of early diagnostics for Alzheimer’s disease in Dutch newspapers. A framing analysis Yvonne Cuijpers and Harro van Lente Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Respect for autonomy? The contribution of popular magazines to the public understanding of dementia care Sanna Inthorn and Julia Inthorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Representations of Alzheimer’s disease among non-specialists. A cross-cultural study between Paris and Boston Marie-Christine Nizzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
In the company of robots. Health care and the identity of people with dementia Ike Kamphof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
The zero-degree of dementia. Thinking the gap between subject and substance Elana Commisso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
AUTHORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 410
Keywords: Culture; Film; Literature; Arts; Media; Aging Studies; Cultural Studies; General Literature Studies; British Studies

eBook

Published: November 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783839427101