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#### Offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework * Significantly broadens the field of work on ageing and cinema through a temporal perspective * Interdisciplinary in focus, drawing from the fields of Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Gerontology, and Dementia Studies * Focuses on eleven case study films about dementia from across a world of cinemas, from Hollywood to Asia __Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances__ offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework. Analysing the aesthetics of films like __A Moment to Remember__ (2004), __Memories of Tomorrow__ (2006) and __Happy End__ (2017), Deng provides new insights into our understanding of how ageing is temporally produced, presented, received and interrogated in and through cinema. Bringing together Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of difference and ideas on time, and building on scholars like Alia Al-Saji, Henri Bergson, Bliss Cua Lim, and David Martin-Jones, the book develops a conceptual framework of relational change – of temporal performances – and suggests that everyone and everything

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Author

MaoHui Deng

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474486972

Category

nonfiction