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Popularizing dementia : public expressions and representations of forgetfulness /
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 in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Aging studies ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Popularizing Dementia ; Contents ; Popularizing dementia. Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness ; I. LITERARY FICTION ; The locus of our dis-ease. Narratives of family life in the age of Alzheimer's.
- Narrating the limits of narration. Alzheimer's disease in contemporary literary texts The 'terrifying question mark'. Dementia, fiction, and the possibilities of narrative ; II. ART, ARTISTIC APPROACHES, AND FILM ; Dementia on the canvas. Art and the biopolitics of creativity.
- Cultural projection of dementia in the Reminiscence Museum. Dynamics of extrapolation Opening Minds through Art. Students' constructions of people with dementia ; 'Zip!' Dementia materialized in clothing design.