Out Takes

11 Feb 2016

A look at the filmic representation of HIV/AIDS

Arts, TV & Film

From the aggressively experimental and political films of New Queer Cinema to their sometimes saccharine Hollywood counterparts, the Out Takes team examine a breadth of films to discuss how HIV/AIDS has been represented on our screens and how that representation has informed queer identity.

We’re joined in the studio by screen and cultural studies academic and arts writer Dion Kagan, who’s soon to be published Positive Images explores a range of (filmic) texts that articulate the fraught legacy of the AIDS crisis and its continued impact upon modern gay consciousness.

As usual, the scope of films ripe for exploration is demanding. But with Kagan sitting in as co host we get through a fair few: critically queer films like The Living End, their less queer contemporaries (like Rent) and their Hollywood counterparts (Philadelphia, Dallas Buyers Club) for example – which elide queer culture in favour of well established character arches and often conservative themes.

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