Representations of HIV and AIDS : visibility blue/s / Gabriele Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Gabriele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease) in mass media.

AIDS (Disease) in literature.

AIDS (Disease) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

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visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility.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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719047102

0719047110

OCLC:

46334477