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POETRY (2010) -2-
Recently, a friend recommended Lucy Bolton’s chapter The Intertextual Stardom of Iris: Winslet, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer’s Disease,Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures (2015). This took me years back before I started my blog. Coming back to … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, Ageism, alzheimer, care, critics, death, family
Tagged 66 year old woman, Azheimer, carer/cleaner, corruption, gangrape, poetry, policeman, rape, suicide, teenagers
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Grief and Guilt -The Straight Story and Manchester by the Sea
Again a brief post that does not deal with the representation of old women in feature films but since I wrote about The Straight Story (1999) 5 years ago I will consider Manchester by the Sea (2016). I find I have … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, Film Analysis, grief, guilt
Tagged accidental death, brothers, death of children, family, grandfather, grief, guilt, house on fire, image, men's film, nature, nephew, old age, stroke, teenagers, uncle
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Old Age and Feature Films 