Examines the ways that AIDS has been represented in American movies over the past two decades, defines and proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS movie, and explores how these films shape social opinions about AIDS and gay men. Discusses several character types such as innocent victims and guilty villains and looks at the process of victim
Examines the ways that AIDS has been represented in American movies over the past two decades, defines and proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS m...
Going beyond the current media research, The AIDS Movie extends the systematic study of media representations of AIDS to include American movies, discussing the ongoing social construction and reconstruction of the AIDS pandemic through film. This study proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS movie and analyzes the representation of AIDS in nearly three dozen such films, all made within the first two decades of the AIDS pandemic. Analysis focuses on social ramifications for gay men and all members of American society; the concept of otherness; and alternative ways of representing AIDS in...
Going beyond the current media research, The AIDS Movie extends the systematic study of media representations of AIDS to include American movies, disc...
Responding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop culture s fascination with end of the world or apocalyptic narratives. Essays discuss films and made-for-television movies including Deep Impact, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrow that feature primarily hu]man-made catastrophes or natural catastrophes. These representations complement the large amount of mediated literature and films on religious perspectives of the apocalypse, the Left Behind series, and other films/books that deal with prophecy from the Book of Revelation...
Responding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop culture s fascination with end of the world or apocaly...
Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki provides an interpretive critical history of director Gregg Araki's career trajectory to date. In doing so, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart articulates the most noteworthy attributes of this New Queer Cinema pioneer's trademark post-punk filmmaking style as well as the unique challenges he faces during the third decade of his filmmaking career.
Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki provides an interpretive critical history of director Gregg Araki's career traject...
Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as Philadelphia, Boys Don't Cry, and Brokeback Mountain. In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals,...
Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizati...
Television has historically been largely ineffective at representing queerness in its various forms. In the 21st century, however, as same-sex couples have seen increasing mainstream acceptance, and a broader range of queer characters has appeared in the media, it seems natural to assume TV portrayals of queerness have become more enlightened. But have they?
This collection of fresh essays analyzes queerness as depicted on TV from 2000 to the present. Examining Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The L Word, Modern Family, The New Normal, Queer as Folk, Queer Eye for the...
Television has historically been largely ineffective at representing queerness in its various forms. In the 21st century, however, as same-sex couples...
