Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Submitting institution
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Aston University
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 26516047
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-53371-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-53370-8
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - Literature, Culture, History and Society
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book makes a significant contribution to the fields of ageing studies and the medical humanities, It provides an in depth and comprehensive study of the representation of dementia in non-mainstream cinema from a range of different perspectives, providing a close reading of specific films taken as case studies with a thorough account of context. The book provides a thorough treatment of what is a complex phenomenon and significantly develops the field by focusing on films that are beyond mainstream ones.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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