Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Introduction.- 2. Old Age and Alzheimer's Disease in Film.- 3. Intergenerational Interactions and Alzheimer's Disease.- 4. Gender and Alzheimer's Disease: The Power of Words, Herbs, Water, Veils and Mountains.- 5. Agency and Masculinity in Alzheimer's Disease: Cortex (2008) and The Memory of a Killer (2003).- 6. Recovering the Past: Historical Memory and Alzheimer's Disease.- 7. Conclusion.