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Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture
Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/...
The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film
In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detecti...
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Vollgepumpt mit Alkohol, Testosteron und einem eher ungesunden Maß an Selbstvertrauen, pendelt John Self zwischen London und New York, um seinen ersten eigenen Film zu realisieren. Doch trotz Dauerrausch gibt es immer wieder Situationen, in denen John klar wird, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Ein rasanter, böser Roman und ein unbestrittener Höhepunkt im Werk von Martin Amis.
