Contested Mindscapes: Exploring Approaches to Dementia in Modern Popular Culture

Dementia is a mental health condition which affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide. Yet it has until recently been an unfairly neglected subject in popular culture.Contested Mindscapes considers the ways in which the arts have engaged with dementia over the past twenty years looking at particular examples drawn from the disciplines of film and television popular music performance art and interactive entertainment.Examining a variety of creative approaches ranging from the thought-provoking to the controversial Contested Mindscapes carefully contemplates the many ways in which the humanities and entertainment industries have engaged with dementia exploring how the wide-ranging implications of this complex condition have been communicated through a variety of artistic nodes.