Prelims

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Movies, Music and Memory

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Emerald Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Series Editor

Kate de Medeiros, Miami University, USA

Emerald Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life responds to the growing need for scholarship focused on age, identity and meaning in late life in a time of unprecedented longevity. For the first time in human history, there are more people in the world aged 60 years and over than under age five. In response, empirical gerontological research on how and why we age has seen exponential growth. An unintended consequence of this growth, however, has been an increasing chasm between the need to study age through generalizable data – the “objective” – and the importance of understanding the human experience of growing old.

Emerald Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life bridges this gap. The series creates a more intellectually diversified gerontology through the perspective of the humanities as well as other interpretive, non-empirical approaches that draw from humanities scholarship. Publishing monographs, edited collections and short-form Emerald Points volumes, the series represents the most cutting-edge research in the areas of humanistic gerontology and ageing.

Editorial Board

Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston, USA

Thomas Cole, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA

Chris Gilleard, University College London, UK

Ros Jennings, University of Glouchestershire, UK

Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria

Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz, Austria

Wendy Martin, Brunel University, London, UK

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Movies, Music and Memory

Tools for Wellbeing in Later Life

Emerald Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Edited by

Julia Hallam

University of Liverpool, UK

Lisa Shaw

University of Liverpool, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India Malaysia – China

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First edition 2020

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Dedication

For our parents

List of Figures

About the Contributors

Julia Hallam is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication and Media, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. She has written widely on issues of gender, representation and aesthetics in film and media and on women as creators and producers of film and television. More recently, she led three AHRC-funded projects on film, memory and urban space, working with amateur and independent filmmakers, the North West Film Archive and the British Film Institute. She has curated exhibitions for the National Museum of Medicine, Washington DC, and the Museum of Liverpool. In an earlier life, she trained as a nurse and health visitor and led the Liverpool arm of the Neighbourhood Health Project (1977–1979), one of the first projects in the UK to employ community health workers to co-ordinate new initiatives on health and social care issues.

Lisa Shaw is Professor of Brazilian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are Brazilian cultural history, with an emphasis on twentieth-century popular music, theatre and film, and in particular from a transnational perspective. She has written books on the social history of Brazilian samba music, the film star Carmen Miranda and popular Brazilian cinema from the 1940s and 1950s. She leads the Cinema, Memory and Wellbeing impact project, which explores the use of music and film as reminiscence tools to improve the emotional wellbeing of the older population, including those living with a dementia diagnosis, and involves outreach initiatives on Merseyside, UK, and in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

Dr Jacqueline Waldock is a researcher at the University of Liverpool. She previously studied Music at Lancaster University and went on to complete a doctorate at the University of Liverpool in Musicology and Composition. Her research focusses on sounds of everyday life, listening cultures and soundscape composition as an ethnographic tool. Selected publications include: Waldock, J. (2016). Hearing urban change. In L. Black & M. Bull (Eds.), Auditory cultural reader (2nd revised edition). Bloomsbury and Waldock, J. (2016). Crossing the boundaries: Community composition and sensory ethnography. Senses and Society, 11(1), 60–67.

Sara Cohen is a Professor at the University of Liverpool where she holds the James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music and is Director of the Institute of Popular Music. She has a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University and is author of Rock Culture in Liverpool (1991) and Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture (2007), co-author of Harmonious Relations (1994) and Liverpool's Musical Landscapes (2018) and co-editor of Sites of Popular Music Heritage (2014). She has specialized in interdisciplinary research on popular music, with a particular interest in ethnographic approaches and research on place, heritage, memory and ageing.

Helena Culshaw is an independent occupational therapist and former chair and vice-chair of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. Helena has previously managed services in the NHS in both hospital and community services including mental health.

Dr Clarissa Giebel is a dementia care researcher, based at the University of Liverpool at the National Institute for Health Research ARC NWC (Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast). Her main research focus is on enabling people with dementia to live independently for longer in the community, thereby addressing potential health inequalities that might affect access to the right care at the right time. She is leading on a number of projects in this field, and works closely with the Netherlands, Australia, Colombia and Chile in addressing health inequalities on a global level. Public involvement is a key component of all her work, and she is actively working with people living with dementia and family carers in all her projects. She conducts independent research funded by the NIHR ARC NWC, and the views expressed in this book are her own, not necessarily those of the National Institute for Health Research or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Ros Jennings is Professor of Ageing, Culture and Media and Co-Director of the Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) Research Centre, University of Gloucestershire.

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