Raquel Medina
Biographic Data
| ID | 5783239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raquel Medina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raquel |
| FAMILY NAME | Medina |
| SIGNATURE | MEDINA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7824-3115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sexual pleasure in older age: Haptic visuality and female eroticism in three contemporary Spanish films
Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature
This article is the Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature’. This introductory article reviews and defines important concepts and approaches related to Ageing Studies and Gender Studies, and in particular the place ageing masculinities occupies in current ageing and gender debates. It also gives an overview of the articles to be included in the Special Issue
Ageing Detectives and Terrorists in Lorenzo Silva’s El mal de Corcira (2020): Rubén Bevilacqua’s Memoirs of Violent Masculinities
This article explores ageing and masculinity in Lorenzo Silva’s novel El mal de Corcira (2020). Hard-boiled crime/detective fiction is associated in most cases with masculinity and patriarchy. In 1998, Lorenzo Silva started publishing his detective Rubén Bevilacqua’s series, a collection of twelve novels so far. Bevilacqua belongs to the Guardia Civil, the oldest Spanish law enforcement agency, which has been associated with violent and patriarch…
Technologies of Age: The Intersection of Feminist Film Theory and Aging Studies
Aging studies is a relatively new discipline, and its intersection with feminist film theory can lead to fundamental methodological and theoretical rethinking of the notion of cinema as a powerful technology of age. This essay provides an account of the ageism that permeates Western societies vis-à-vis the place of aging and gender in visual culture. In light of contemporary feminist conceptualizations of aging and aging narratives, this essay ai…
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen. Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 361 pp. £52. ISBN 9780190685799. Raquel Medina Raquel Medina Aston University, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 2, May 2021, Pages 699–700, https://doi.org…
Representaciones artísticas y sociales del envejecimiento
Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease
This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease in non-mainstream cinema. The films don’t just focus on negative aspects, but also on the importance of portraying the perspective and personhood of those living with Alzheimer’s.
Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer's Disease
This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema. Even though Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is a global health issue, it is not perceived or represented homogenously around the world. Contrary to very well-known mainstream films, the films discussed do not focus on the negative aspects normally associated with Alzheimer's disease, but on the importance…
Vejez, Envejecimiento Y Edadismo
Conclusion
The conclusion identifies the main topics and ideas that the films under study convey, and summarises the conclusions from the individual chapters. In addition, it highlights the impact that non-stigmatic cultural representations and perceptions of people living with Alzheimer’s disease can have on those individuals affected, both directly and indirectly
Who speaks up for Inés Fonseca? Representing violence against vulnerable subjects and the ethics of care in fictional narrative about Alzheimer's disease: Ahora tocad música de baile (2004) by Andrés …
This paper studies the 2004 Spanish fictional novel by Andrés Barba, Ahora tocad música de baile , one of the first cultural texts dealing entirely with Alzheimer's disease to appear in Spain. It argues that the significance of Barba's fictional novel rests on two important issues: the ethics of representation of violence against vulnerable subjects and the ethics of care. The paper analyses how these two issues allow Barba to create a story in w…
From the medicalisation of dementia to the politics of memory and identity in three Spanish documentary films: Bicicleta, cullera, poma, Las voces de la memoria and Bucarest: la memòria perduda
This paper explores how the concept of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is constructed through Spanish media and documentary films and how it is represented. The article analyses three documentary films and the cultural and social contexts in and from which they emerged: Solé's Bucarest: la memòria perduda [ Bucharest: Memory Lost ] (2007), Bosch's Bicicleta, cullera, poma [ Bicycle, Spoon, Apple ] (2010) and Fabrá, Peris and Badia's Las voces de la memo…
Alzheimer’s Disease, a Shifting Paradigm in Spanish Film: Y tú quién eres? and Amanecer de un sueño
In the last fifteen years Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has changed the way in which developed countries have tended to perceive and deal with ageing. It has also become the main health problem needing to be resolved in both financial and social terms. If cancer was considered and labelled as the epidemic of the twentieth century, AD has soon been designated as the epidemic of the twenty-first century. This article analyses how AD is perceived and rep…
Immigrant dislocated identities: Rachid Nini's Diario de un ilegal
This article describes the process through which the subjectivity of the illegal immigrant is deconstructed and later reconstructed, as revealed by the Moroccan journalist and intellectual Rachid Nini in his book Diario de un ilegal/Diary of an Illegal Immigrant (2002), an account of the author's perils as an illegal immigrant in Spain. The analysis focuses firstly on the narrative form that Nini employs to give an account of his story, and secon…
Muérete ¡y verás: Propuesta para una comedia romántica
From the medicalisation of dementia to the politics of memory and identity in three Spanish documentary films: Bicicleta, cullera, poma, Las voces de la memoria and Bucarest: la memòria perduda
This paper explores how the concept of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is constructed through Spanish media and documentary films and how it is represented. The article analyses three documentary films and the cultural and social contexts in and from which they emerged: Solé's Bucarest: la memòria perduda [ Bucharest: Memory Lost ] (2007), Bosch's Bicicleta, cullera, poma [ Bicycle, Spoon, Apple ] (2010) and Fabrá, Peris and Badia's Las voces de la memo…
Muérete ¡y verás: Propuesta para una comedia romántica
Immigrant dislocated identities: Rachid Nini's Diario de un ilegal
This article describes the process through which the subjectivity of the illegal immigrant is deconstructed and later reconstructed, as revealed by the Moroccan journalist and intellectual Rachid Nini in his book Diario de un ilegal/Diary of an Illegal Immigrant (2002), an account of the author's perils as an illegal immigrant in Spain. The analysis focuses firstly on the narrative form that Nini employs to give an account of his story, and secon…
Alzheimer’s Disease, a Shifting Paradigm in Spanish Film: Y tú quién eres? and Amanecer de un sueño
In the last fifteen years Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has changed the way in which developed countries have tended to perceive and deal with ageing. It has also become the main health problem needing to be resolved in both financial and social terms. If cancer was considered and labelled as the epidemic of the twentieth century, AD has soon been designated as the epidemic of the twenty-first century. This article analyses how AD is perceived and rep…
From the medicalisation of dementia to the politics of memory and identity in three Spanish documentary films: Bicicleta, cullera, poma, Las voces de la memoria and Bucarest: la memòria perduda
This paper explores how the concept of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is constructed through Spanish media and documentary films and how it is represented. The article analyses three documentary films and the cultural and social contexts in and from which they emerged: Solé's Bucarest: la memòria perduda [ Bucharest: Memory Lost ] (2007), Bosch's Bicicleta, cullera, poma [ Bicycle, Spoon, Apple ] (2010) and Fabrá, Peris and Badia's Las voces de la memo…
Who speaks up for Inés Fonseca? Representing violence against vulnerable subjects and the ethics of care in fictional narrative about Alzheimer's disease: Ahora tocad música de baile (2004) by Andrés …
This paper studies the 2004 Spanish fictional novel by Andrés Barba, Ahora tocad música de baile , one of the first cultural texts dealing entirely with Alzheimer's disease to appear in Spain. It argues that the significance of Barba's fictional novel rests on two important issues: the ethics of representation of violence against vulnerable subjects and the ethics of care. The paper analyses how these two issues allow Barba to create a story in w…
Representaciones artísticas y sociales del envejecimiento
Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer’s Disease
This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease in non-mainstream cinema. The films don’t just focus on negative aspects, but also on the importance of portraying the perspective and personhood of those living with Alzheimer’s.
Cinematic Representations of Alzheimer's Disease
This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema. Even though Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is a global health issue, it is not perceived or represented homogenously around the world. Contrary to very well-known mainstream films, the films discussed do not focus on the negative aspects normally associated with Alzheimer's disease, but on the importance…
Vejez, Envejecimiento Y Edadismo
Conclusion
The conclusion identifies the main topics and ideas that the films under study convey, and summarises the conclusions from the individual chapters. In addition, it highlights the impact that non-stigmatic cultural representations and perceptions of people living with Alzheimer’s disease can have on those individuals affected, both directly and indirectly
Technologies of Age: The Intersection of Feminist Film Theory and Aging Studies
Aging studies is a relatively new discipline, and its intersection with feminist film theory can lead to fundamental methodological and theoretical rethinking of the notion of cinema as a powerful technology of age. This essay provides an account of the ageism that permeates Western societies vis-à-vis the place of aging and gender in visual culture. In light of contemporary feminist conceptualizations of aging and aging narratives, this essay ai…
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen. Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 361 pp. £52. ISBN 9780190685799. Raquel Medina Raquel Medina Aston University, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 2, May 2021, Pages 699–700, https://doi.org…
Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature
This article is the Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature’. This introductory article reviews and defines important concepts and approaches related to Ageing Studies and Gender Studies, and in particular the place ageing masculinities occupies in current ageing and gender debates. It also gives an overview of the articles to be included in the Special Issue
Ageing Detectives and Terrorists in Lorenzo Silva’s El mal de Corcira (2020): Rubén Bevilacqua’s Memoirs of Violent Masculinities
This article explores ageing and masculinity in Lorenzo Silva’s novel El mal de Corcira (2020). Hard-boiled crime/detective fiction is associated in most cases with masculinity and patriarchy. In 1998, Lorenzo Silva started publishing his detective Rubén Bevilacqua’s series, a collection of twelve novels so far. Bevilacqua belongs to the Guardia Civil, the oldest Spanish law enforcement agency, which has been associated with violent and patriarch…
Sexual pleasure in older age: Haptic visuality and female eroticism in three contemporary Spanish films
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