Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Old Age and Alzheimer's Disease in Film; 2.1 Old Age, Ageing, and Ageism; 2.2 Mapping Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease; 2.3 The Medicalisation of Dementia; 2.4 The Burden of Care and Personhood; 2.5 Dementia Narratives; 2.6 Alzheimer's Disease in Film; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Intergenerational Interactions and Alzheimer's Disease; 3.1 Dependency Theory, Intergenerational Support, and Care; 3.2 Family Interactions and Alzheimer's Disease; 3.3 Grandson's Solidarity in Pandora's Box

3.4 Father, Son, and Granddaughter in A Separation3.5 Conflict and Loneliness in Poetry; 3.6 Living in a Nursing Home: Identity Narratives and/or Narrative Identities; 3.6.1 Cortex; 3.6.2 Wrinkles; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Gender and Alzheimer's Disease: The Power of Words, Herbs, Water, Veils, and Mountains; 4.1 Solidarity Among Women and Ecofeminism: The Good Herbs; 4.2 Old Cats and Matrophobia: Water and Motherhood; 4.3 Poetry: Seeing, Feeling, Writing, and Water; 4.4 Nation, Gender, and Loss; 4.4.1 Pandora's Box; 4.4.2 A Separation: Gender and National Belonging; References

Chapter 5 Agency and Masculinity in Alzheimer's Disease: Cortex (2008) and The Memory of a Killer (2003)5.1 Heroes and Villains: Crime Film and Masculinity; 5.2 The Male Star System and Ageing in the Film Industry; 5.3 Cortex: When Sherlock Meets Alzheimer's Disease; 5.4 Cortex: The Detective-Hero's Masculinity and the Femme Fatale; 5.5 The Memory of a Killer: Alzheimer's Disease as Moral Rehabilitation Therapy; 5.6 Masculinity Versus Femininity: Childhood Versus Adulthood and Old Age in the Memory of a Killer; References

Chapter 6 Recovering the Past: Historical Memory and Alzheimer's Disease6.1 Spain and Documentary Film; 6.1.1 A New Documentary Film and Postmemory; 6.1.2 Swimming; 6.1.3 Bucharest, the Lost Memory; 6.2 Remember: Holocaust, Dementia, and the Politics of Revenge; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index