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Aids Movie: Representing A Pandemic In Film And Television
Author: Hart, Kylo-Patrick R.
Paperback
176 pages
Published: October 2000
Haworth Press, Inc
ISBN: 0789011085

Going beyond the current media research, The AIDS Movie extends the systematic study of media representations of AIDS to include American movies, discussing the ongoing social construction and reconstruction of the AIDS pandemic through film. This study proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS movie and analyzes the representation of AIDS in nearly three dozen such films, all made within the first two decades of the AIDS pandemic. Analysis focuses on social ramifications for gay men and all members of American society; the concept of otherness; and alternative ways of representing AIDS in movies, including AIDS-metaphor films and AIDS documentaries. This book will be suitable for students and academics in the fields of media, popular culture, gay/lesbian studies, and sociologyExamines the ways that AIDS has been represented in film and on TV over the past twenty years.


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