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AIDS in the City : Melodrama and the Social Marketing of HIV Prevention in Francophone West Africa
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... she was a Fulbright scholar in 2005–6. © 2017 by Camera Obscura 2017 melodrama HIV/AIDS prevention West Africa social marketing telenovela soap opera Figure 1. Nathalie embraces her mother in the segment
titled “The Story of the Fiancés,” from the 2003 series of
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The Fold of Undetectable
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Nathan Lee This piece reflects on the concept of “undetectable” through the double lens of HIV/AIDS discourse and the metaphysics of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. With the advent of antiretroviral therapy treatments for HIV infection that effectively reduce one's viral load to levels that elude...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... years. She is a very vocal HIV/AIDS activ-
ist, being positive herself and the mother of a positive daughter.
While she has been trying to stay legal through employment, she
hasn’t been able to get a green card because of the congressional
ban on HIV-positive immigrants. When I met her, she...
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The Implications of How to Survive a Plague
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 123–151.
Published: 01 May 2016
... — and, subsequently, the splinter organization TAG
(Treatment Action Group) — played in the US HIV/AIDS epi-
demic between 1987 and 1996. It is also a film that can be ques-
tioned. When viewed in relation to other recent documentaries
dealing with gay men and AIDS in the US, How to Survive a Plague
raises...
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Facing Death, Choosing Life: Pose 's Positive Historiography
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (1 (115)): 95–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... “Vogue.” For Blanca, this is evidence that the tide is changing—that queer culture has been forced into the spotlight and queer people must subsequently be taken seriously. Blanca's discovery that her HIV has progressed to AIDS in a later scene of this same episode does not shake her optimism...
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Beyond Cosmo : AIDS, Identity and Inscriptions of Gender
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 20–77.
Published: 01 January 1992
... and does not cause laceration But there are serious 23
problems with the argument. When Gould says AIDS, he means HIV,
the human immunodeficiency virus. He also means unprotected het-
erosexual penile-vaginal intercourse with an infected man, a point he
makes once but not consistently...
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Introduction
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 4–19.
Published: 01 January 1992
...) who is seen and not seen by science,
medicine, and the health care system as it attempts to describe and
manage HIV/AIDS. In “Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscrip-
tions of Gender,” Paula Treichler argues that mainstream AIDS dis-
course gathers and represents data in such a way...
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Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of Paris Is Burning
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 95–119.
Published: 01 December 2024
... States. 2 A 1993 New York Times article documents the ravages AIDS wrought upon the ball communities and cites lawsuits against Livingston for their share of the profit by ball members featured in the documentary—all of which highlight how the material realities of HIV/AIDS and poverty were glossed...
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Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 133–139.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of community management was too often invisible to partici-
pants. Fortunately, many members of the collective had firsthand
experience in the women’s art movements of the 1970s and 1980s
and in HIV/AIDS activist organizing. Younger members strove to
emulate many of the practices associated...
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WAVE in the Media Environment: Camcorder Activism and the Making of HIV TV
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 134–151.
Published: 01 January 1992
... production with
different needs and constraints. My work with an HIV video support
group illuminates the complex and sensitive conditions surrounding
camcorder education and production.
The decision to take action through video production and analysis
is not uncommon to the AIDS crisis...
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Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 100–133.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., and why use narrative
analysis to do it? Concerning the first question, there is little doubt
that the dispute over the virus that came to be known as HIV has had
a significant impact on both lay and scientific discourse on AIDS. By
itself, the amount of written material involved...
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Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 78–99.
Published: 01 January 1992
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of identity formation. lS Such “moments” of essentialism consolidate 87
political unities, sometimes only “momentarily,” sometimes main-
tained “stably” at great cost.
Education about HIV infection and AIDS internationally has under-
scored the global influence of historically white EuroAmerican...
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Index to camera obscura /28, 29, 30 (volume 10)
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 141–143.
Published: 01 May 1992
... I. No.
29; pp. 91-129.
DiPiero, Thomas
White Men Aren’t. No. 30; pp. 113-137
Egger, Rebecca
Deaf Ears and Dark Continents: Dorothy Richardson’s Cinematic Episte-
mology. No. 30; pp. 5-33
Feldman, Jamie
Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis...
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Visit of the Body Snatchers: Alien Invasion Themes in Vampire Narratives
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Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 180–198.
Published: 01 May 1997
... infected. This exposition of an alien entity
transmitted by the blood, inducing progressive mutation-internally
colonizing the body’s cells, which then work against the good of the
body-cannot escape comparison with AIDS. It matches the “scien-
tific” version of how HIV...
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Smokin' Tokens: thirtysomething and TV's Queer Dilemma
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 192–211.
Published: 01 May 1994
...: the words “AIDS” and “HIV” are
never actually spoken, they don’t need to be because-in the logic of
this narrative-if there are gays around, there is bound to be AIDS.
This absence occurs again in “Closing the Circle” during which Peter
only needs to tell Michael that he had “the test’’ in order...
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Re witched : Retextuality and the Queering of Bewitched
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the heteronormative familial structure prized by FamilyNet. Notable commercials in other episodes of Bewitched on LOGOtv include interstitials showing gay men and same-sex couples watching television, PSAs educating audiences about HIV/AIDS prevention, commercials from national advertisers catering to LGBTQ...
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AIDS and Gay Cinephilia
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., it
is important to recognize the simultaneous scope and diversity of
the effects that AIDS has had on gay men. Thus when clinical psy-
chologist Walt Odets argues that all gay men are living with HIV
and AIDS, he is actually doing so in the service of articulating the
specific needs of HIV-negative gay men.5...
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Of Housewives and Saints: Abjection, Transgression, and Impossible Mourning in Poison and Safe
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 93–123.
Published: 01 December 2004
... tells us that there is always a reason why a star falls or a
body is ill . . . and religion does the same.
—Poison
“Nothing could be more meaningless than a virus,” notes Judith
Williamson in an essay titled “Every Virus Tells a Story: The Mean-
ings of HIV and AIDS.”23 Whatever destruction...
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WAVE in the Media Environment: Camcorder Activism in AIDS Education
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 152–155.
Published: 01 January 1992
...Juanita Mohammed Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Ways women can contract HIV, from We Care: A Video for Care Providers of
People Affected by AlDS (WAVE-Women’s Aids Video Enterprise, 1990).
WAVE in the Media Environment:
Camcorder Activism in AIDS...
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The Future Was Then: Reinvesting in Feminist Media Practice and Politics
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 53–57.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of HIV TV,” Camera
Obscura, no. 28 (1992): 135 – 52. I list two of my own articles on
the subject of activist video published in this journal to indicate
that the field and Camera Obscura have supported scholarship on
alternative feminist media; however, this body...
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