Ageing, dementia and time in film : temporal performances / MaoHui Deng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deng, MaoHui, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging in motion pictures.

Time in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 178 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

<i>Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances</i> 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.<br><br>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 experiences time differently.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Temporally Relational Worldview

1. Performing Time/Performed by Time

2. The Shape of Dementia Narratives and Deleuze’s Third Synthesis of Time

3. A Kind of Radical Empathy

4. Ecologies of Temporal Performances

5. Reading the Digital Index in a Hesitant Way

6. The Trope of Wandering and the Temporalities of a Nation

Coda: My Grandparents

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-8700-9

1-4744-8699-1

OCLC:

1372424733