Reframing bodies : AIDS, bearing witness, and the queer moving image / Roger Hallas.

  • Hallas, Roger, 1970-
Date:
2009
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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

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-306) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FEJ.AL
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780822345831
  • 0822345838
  • 9780822346012
  • 082234601X