Kaposi's Sarcoma

A Plague and its Symptoms

The tape is about the way AIDS has been represented by medical journalism in particular and the dominant media in general. Contemporary medical research is destroying a movement that the gay liberation movement has built up, that is an autonomous, proud, homoerotic body, and is reconstructing that body as a pathological and morbid body that shows symptoms of disease.

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Movie
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1
Episode Duration
24 mins
Status
Finished
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Type
Movie
Format
Movie
Episodes
1
Episode Duration
24 mins
Status
Finished
Start Date
Jan 1, 1983
Season
1983
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0
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0
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Country
CA
English
A Plague and its Symptoms

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The tape is about the way AIDS has been represented by medical journalism in particular and the dominant media in general. Contemporary medical research is destroying a movement that the gay liberation movement has built up, that is an autonomous, proud, homoerotic body, and is reconstructing that body as a pathological and morbid body that shows symptoms of disease.

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Japanese

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