Wearing, Sadie 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8480-4895
(2017)
Troubled men: ageing, dementia and masculinity in contemporary British crime drama.
Journal of British Cinema and Television, 14 (2).
pp. 125-142.
ISSN 1743-4521
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Abstract
Focussing on three recent British film and television crime dramas, Mr Holmes, The Fear and the English language version of Wallander, this article argues that older men in these texts are a site through which contemporary social and cultural anxieties about ageing and dementia are played out in highly gendered ways that link to social and philosophical reflections on power, autonomy and selfhood. The dramas, while very different in affective orientation and tone, nonetheless all produce reflections on the meanings of memory loss within figurations of masculinity in the crime genre which have a broader significance for thinking through the representational dilemmas of dementia.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/jbctv |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 Edinburgh University Press |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2017 16:51 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 01:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69466 |
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