| Representations of HIV and AIDS Contributor(s): Griffin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719047110 ISBN-13: 9780719047114 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2001 Annotation: 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visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility.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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| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts |
| Dewey: 305.906 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.7" W x 8.52" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher 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visible cultural forms, from movies, theatre, activist interventions, and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility.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. |