| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 120 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Provides a thorough examination of how HIV/AIDS is characterized and portrayed in film and how this portrayal affects American culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-108) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) in motion pictures.
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AIDS (Disease)
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Metaphor.
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Cinematography.
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Motion pictures.
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Television broadcasting.
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Television.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Metaphor
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Motion Pictures
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Stereotyping
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Television
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metaphor.
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cinematography.
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television (telecommunication system)
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Television broadcasting
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Television
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Metaphor
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Cinematography
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AIDS (Disease) in motion pictures
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AIDS (Disease)
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Motion pictures
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Fernsehen
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Aids
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Film
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317956976 |
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1317956974 |
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9781317956969 |
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1317956966 |
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9781315865195 |
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131586519X |
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