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Losing it : staging the cultural conundrum of dementia and decline in American theatre / Dorothy Chansky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chansky, Dorothy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dementia in literature.
- Theater--United States--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--United States--History--21st century.
- Dementia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Part I Orientation
- 1 Introduction
- Organization of the Book
- Notes
- 2 Dementia, Alzheimer's, Age: Intersectionalities and an American Context
- 3 Bodies in the Audience/Bodies Onstage: Intersectionalities
- Part II Social Insecurity
- 4 Walk-On: Joint Owners in Spain
- Joint Owners: Dramaturgy and Depictions
- Dementia In Situ
- Critical Reception(s)
- Ladies First. Or Last.
- 5 Supporting Role: All the Living
- The Moment/The Medicine/The Men
- Dramatization and Its Discontents
- Reading Embodiment
- The Next Steps
- 6 Willy Loman Center Stage
- Doctors' Dilemmas
- Seeing Is Believing/Believing Is Seeing
- Home. Free.
- Part III Taking It Personally
- 7 From the Inside
- Brain Crash7
- "I Am an Archive"60
- 8 Inside (and) Out: "Who Exactly Am I?"-The Father
- Part IV Human. Resources.
- 9 Memory. Loss. Or, Understanding Memory (for Dummies)
- Understanding Memory (for Dummies)
- 10 Family Affairs
- Sign on the Dot(ty)ed Line
- Brief Me on This
- 11 Ready for Prime Time: Marjorie Prime
- Notes
- 12 Cellular Data
- Cellular Data on the Public's Radar
- 13 No. Regrets.
- Wav(erly)ing Goodbye
- Humans. Resources.
- 14 Who Cares?
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 21, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1894 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chansky, Dorothy Losing It
- ISBN:
- 3031209028
- 9783031209024
- Publisher Number:
- 99994912000
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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