author = { Swinnen, Aagje AND Schweda, Mark },

title = { Popularizing Dementia Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness },

publisher = {transcript-Verlag},

isbn = {9783839427101},

keywords = { Dementia in art , Dementia , Diseases in literature , Alzheimer's disease , Diseases in motion pictures , Popular culture , SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology , Demenz Motiv , Literatur , Film , Senile Demenz , Massenmedien , Diskurs , Öffentliche Meinung },

year = {2015},

abstract = {Description based upon print version of record},

abstract = {Frontmatter -- 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 -- Deconstructing the American family. Figures of parents with dementia in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and A.M. Homes’ May We Be Forgiven -- Purging the world of the Whore and the horror. Gothic and apocalyptic portrayals of dementia in Canadian fiction -- 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 -- Challenging representations of dementia in contemporary Western fiction film. From epistemic injustice to social participation -- Intercorporeal relations and ethical perception. Portrayals of Alzheimer’s disease in Away from Her and En sång för Martin -- III. MEDIA DISCOURSES AND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS -- Dementia in the making. Early detection and the body/brain in Alzheimer’s disease -- The meanings of early diagnostics for Alzheimer’s disease in Dutch newspapers. A framing analysis -- Respect for autonomy? The contribution of popular magazines to the public understanding of dementia care -- Representations of Alzheimer’s disease among non-specialists. A cross-cultural study between Paris and Boston -- In the company of robots. Health care and the identity of people with dementia -- The zero-degree of dementia. Thinking the gap between subject and substance -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- AUTHORS},

booktitle = {Aging Studies ; vol. 6},

booktitle = {De Gruyter eBook-Paket Sozialwissenschaften},

address = { Bielefeld },

url = { http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2 }