Lexington Books
Pages: 182
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4985-4726-0 • Hardback • September 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-4727-7 • eBook • September 2018 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Malynnda Johnson is assistant professor of communication at Indiana State
University.
Introduction
Part One - Teaching HIV
Chapter One: Television as Teacher
Chapter Two: Conceptualizing HIV in the Media
Part Two - Previously On…. HIV on Television
Chapter Three: This Just In, HIV in the News
Chapter Four: Oh the Drama! The Many Sides of HIV in Dramatic Shows
Chapter Five: HIV as a Punchline: Comedic Narratives on Stage and Screen
Chapter Six: Didactic Dichotomy of HIV Narratives
Part Three - AIDS: The Body, The People, The Perceptions
Chapter Seven: Characters and the “AIDS Body”
Chapter Eight: Negative in Life, Positive on Screen
Chapter Nine: “Those People Are at Risk”
Part Four - Stay Tuned for Clips of Next Season
Chapter Ten: Overcoming the Barriers and Moving Forward
Appendix 1: Show Listing
The author of this volume provides a deeply engaging and enriching account of HIV/AIDS (mis)representations and (mis)constructions in the popular media. Well-researched and beautifully written, this book provides a robust framework—theoretical and methodological—for understanding how our notions of illness and disease are socially constructed and influenced by the media.
— Arvind Singhal, University of Texas at El Paso
The arguments and insights in this manuscript are both new and important. A researcher in AIDS representation myself, I have been shocked and disappointed by the lack of information and—crucially—cultural analysis of the AIDS epidemic. This work offers an important contribution to a conversation in which there are relatively few participants.
— Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University
HIV on TV: Popular Culture’s Epidemic demands that readers take popular culture representations of HIV and AIDS seriously. In addition to providing a rich history of how HIV has been portrayed in television and film, Johnson offers her candid assessments about how media creators must repair the problems that continue to persist in popular culture depictions of HIV. The book offers the opportunity for scholars who study media, health, rhetoric, popular culture, sexuality, and/or journalism to combine various threads of thought and enhance how they envision popular culture as a form of education.
— Jimmie Manning, University of Nevada