Malynnda A. Johnson

HIV on TV

Popular Culture's Epidemic

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Produktbeschreibung

HIV on TV: Popular Culture’s Epidemic is a critical analysis of the ways television has portrayed HIV. Spanning time, genres, and viewpoints HIV on TV offers a challenge for viewers, media writers, even political figures in the ways they think about, and frame, the continued epidemic that is HIV.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9781498547260
• ISBN-10: 1498547265
• Artikelnr.: 52639355

Autorenporträt

Malynnda A. Johnson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One - Teaching HIV
Chapter One: Television as Teacher
Chapter Two: Conceptualizing HIV in the Media
Part Two - Previously On.. HIV on Television
Chapter Three: This Just In, HIV in the News
Chapter Four: Oh the Drama! The Many Sides of HIV in Dramatic Shows
Chapter Five: HIV as a Punchline: Comedic Narratives on Stage and Screen
Chapter Six: Didactic Dichotomy of HIV Narratives
Part Three - AIDS: The Body, The People, The Perceptions
Chapter Seven: Characters and the "AIDS Body"
Chapter Eight: Negative in Life, Positive on Screen
Chapter Nine: "Those People Are at Risk"
Part Four - Stay Tuned for Clips of Next Season
Chapter Ten: Overcoming the Barriers and Moving Forward
Appendix 1: Show Listing