Research Catalog

Title

The AIDS movie : representing a pandemic in film and television / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart.

Author

Hart, Kylo-Patrick R.

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, c2000.

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Details

Description

xiii, 120 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Provides a thorough examination of how HIV/AIDS is characterized and portrayed in film and how this portrayal affects American culture.

Subject

• Television
• Stereotyping
• Motion Pictures
• Metaphor
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• AIDS (Disease) in motion pictures
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Conceptualizing the AIDS Movie and Its Study -- AIDS, Social Construction, and Media Representation -- Defining and Analyzing the AIDS Movie -- Significance of the Study -- The Cinematic Tradition of Otherness Meets AIDS -- Otherness, Science Fiction, and AIDS -- Otherness, Melodrama, and AIDS -- Other Forms of Otherness and AIDS -- "Us" versus "Them": "Innocent Victims" and the Politics of Victim Blaming -- "Villains" and "Innocent Victims" -- The Process of Victim Blaming in AIDS Movies -- Gay Men As "The (Primary) Other" in the AIDS Movie -- The Persistent Representational Link Between Gay Men and AIDS: Opportunities, Shortcomings, and Consequences for Gay Males -- Consequences of the Persistent Representational Link Between Gay Men and AIDS for Members of Other Social Groups -- AIDS and the City (versus the Country) -- The City As Gay Utopia and AIDS Dystopia -- The Country As Balm to City-Dwelling "Deviants" -- Other Ways of Representing AIDS -- The Form and Function of AIDS Characters in Non-AIDS Movies -- AIDS Metaphor Movies -- Self-Representation in AIDS Documentaries -- The (Near) Future of Representing AIDS.

ISBN

• 0789011077 (alk. paper)
• 0789011085 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00038879^

OCLC

43845647

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library