Dementia in Film, Media and Culture

This collection examines the ways in which dementia has and can be represented and understood in a variety of media and cultural forms, including fiction film (and paratexts around it), documentary, television, literature, theatre, social media and intermedial forms. The chapters included look at texts produced or set in 24 different countries across Europe, East and Southern Asia, North and Latin America, Australia and Africa, considering the voices of researchers, along with filmmakers, practitioners and audiences. The collection exhibits considerable scope and variety in its methods, perspectives and approaches. While ethical concerns are at its core, these approaches have other recurring and overlapping themes – ageing, relationships, nationhood, memory, time and place – and are also joined by the desire to interrogate and explore how responsibilities around representations are negotiated differently across diverse media, cultures and societies.