基本説明
Suggests that changes in the understanding of HIV/AIDS, the shift from 'dying of' to 'living with' in Western cultures, and a failure to grasp the full extent of the impact in African and Asian countries, has led to the 'death' of the disease in the Western media.
Full Description
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visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility.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.
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.
