Representations of HIV and AIDS
Author:   Gabriele Griffin
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9780719047114


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 February 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Representations of HIV and AIDS


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What happened to the plague of HIV/AIDS that once seemed so threatening? Gabriele Griffin argues that the explosion of HIV/AIDS into highly visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility. Griffin suggests that changes in the understanding of HIV/AIDS, the shift from ""dying of the disease"" to ""living with it"" in Western cultures, and a failure to grasp the full extent of the growth and impact of HIV/AIDS in a number of African and Asian countries has led to the ""death"" of the disease in the Western media.

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Author:   Gabriele Griffin
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780719047114


ISBN 10:   0719047110
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 February 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Visibility Blue/s - Derek Jarman's Blue ; AIDS demographics - ACT-UP and the art of intervention; the words to say it - HIV/AIDS in health promotion campaigns and in art; locations - mapping HIV/AIDS in Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On and other texts; alien bodies - HIV/AIDS in Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers and Off Colour ; in-direction - the new agit-prop of Larry Kramer's theatre; safe and sexy? Lesbian erotica/porn in the age of HIV/AIDS; what matter bodies? Philadelphia and beyond.

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Gabriele Griffin is Professor of English at Kingston University.

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