Reframing bodies : AIDS, bearing witness, and the queer moving image / Roger Hallas.
- Hallas, Roger, 1970-
- Date:
- 2009
- Books
About this work
Description
This work examines how queer filmmakers and videographers bore witness to the historical trauma of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Publication/Creation
Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Physical description
xiii, 319 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-306) and index.
Contents
Historical trauma and the performance of talking heads -- The embodied immediacy of direct action : space and movement in AIDS video activism -- Related bodies : resisting confession in autobiographical AIDS video -- Queer anachronism and the testimonial space of song -- Gay cinephilia and the cherished body of experimental film -- Sound, image, and the corporeal implication of witnessing.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFEJ.ALOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780822345831
- 0822345838
- 9780822346012
- 082234601X