Cine-med-ucation and dementia: Whatever happened to representation theory?

This paper is concerned with a variety of contemporary representations of dementia in both mainstream made-for-box-office cinema and in TV soap and drama. Such representations frequently draw on familiar tropes of global memory loss, violence and aggression, extreme dependency on heroic carers, cat...

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Main Authors: Capstick, Andrea, Ludwin, Katherine
Language:en
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5570