Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film

Temporal Performances

MaoHui Deng

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Edinburgh University Press
11 March 2025

Film theory & criticism; Reference works; Age groups: the elderly

Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances 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.

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.

By: MaoHui Deng
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474486989
ISBN 10: 1474486983
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MaoHui Deng is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Manchester. His research is interested in the ways in which films about dementia and ageing can help further as well as complicate our understanding of time in cinema, gerontology and the wider society. He has previously published in the journal Asian Cinema, in addition to the edited collections Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care (2022) and The Politics of Dementia (2022)

Reviews for Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances

This important book offers a stimulating reading of films that examine the perspective of the person living with dementia. Deng's original approach is founded on well-informed theoretical ideas such as temporal performances and hesitation in order to show how these films tackle crucial issues such as difference, relationality, and care. --Raquel Medina, Aston University What does it mean to experience time differently? To approach this question, Deng takes a refreshing Deleuzian turn to make dexterous links between the messy temporalities of both dementia and cinema. Embracing hesitation as an ethical approach, Deng offers a delightfully clear, theoretically deft, movingly personal take on cinematic aging that is well worth the read. --Sally Chivers, Trent University