AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television

AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television

Haworth Press, 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904-1580. 120p., bibliog., index. ISBN 0-7890-1107-7, 0-7890-1108-5pbk. $39.95, $27.95pbk.
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart. 2000.

Beverly Hills 90210 made a disaster of representing AIDS as a leading cause of death among young Americans of all sexual orientations and race. It instead depicted the character with AIDS as a gay white male character named Jimmy who disappeared after three weeks and was never mentioned again. This stereotyping of AIDS caused the author to devote three years to locating and analyzing as many representations of AIDS in American movies as he could find. He hopes that what he found will "guide the creators of influential media messages in producing more effective representations of HIV/AIDS that can help stem the tide of the AIDS pandemic as we enter its third decade and (if necessary) beyond." Of the 40 AIDS movies, he analyzed 32. This is an interesting book that provides some well-documented facts on the depiction of AIDS in U.S. movies, most of which is stereotyped as the gay white male. A recommended book for all academic libraries.

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