Digital life storytelling and dementia: Linear narratives or lines of flight?

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Digital life storytelling and dementia: Linear narratives or lines of flight?

Andrea Capstick and Katherine Ludwin, University of

Bradford

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The research• NIHR-SSCR-funded• Ten people with dementia aged 76-99 years, living in long-term social care• Impact of participatory film-making on social participation and well- being

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Rhizomatic narratives

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Linear format

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Lines of flight….

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Drawing on film theory

• Foregrounding theory; fabula and syuzhet (Bordwell)

• Film-making tropes that also occur in narratives of people with dementia eg two people share an identity; dead and living people confused with each other; palimpsests.

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