Reframing AIDS

APPROPIATE

1987 / 35min.

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Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this documentary investigates the way in which AIDS has been used by the media and by the government to increase state harassment of gay men and lesbians, black people and women. Framing the problem in terms of a left politic, the tape reveals how both homophobia and puritanism have been responsible for the slow government response to AIDS.

Directors

Actors

Isaac Julien

Stuart Marshall

Simon Watney

Sue O’Sullivan

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