{"product_id":"losing-it-dorothy-chansky-9783031209017","title":"Losing It: Staging the Cultural Conundrum of Dementia and Decline in American Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019. Its imbricated strands are playtexts; audiences as both the targets of the productions (artifacts in the marketplace) and as anticipated determinants of legibility; and medical science, both as has been (and is) known to researchers and, more importantly, as it has been (and is) known to educated general audiences. As the Baby Boom generation finds itself solidly in the category of \"Senior,\" interest in plays that address personal and social issues around cognitive decline as a potentially frightening and expensive experience, no two iterations of which are identical, have, understandably, burgeoned. This study shines a spotlight on eleven dementia plays that have been produced in the United States over the past century, and seeks, in the words of medical humanities scholar Anne Whitehead, to \"open up, \u003ci\u003eand to hold open\u003c\/i\u003e, central ethical questions of responsiveness, interpretation, responsibility, complicity and care.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy Chansky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303120901X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031209017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d","brand":"Dorothy Chansky","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44365193675007,"sku":"9783031209017","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d3d4d419-d7cf-4c87-9a6b-1f9e221856ab.jpg?v=1697057145","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/losing-it-dorothy-chansky-9783031209017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}