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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visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility.

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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.

Representations of HIV and AIDS Visibility BlueS

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719047114, 978-0719047114
      ISBN10: 0719047110

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility.

      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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