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060 10 $aWD 308$bM158p 1992
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100 1 $aMacKinnon, Kenneth,$d1942-
245 14 $aThe politics of popular representation :$bReagan, Thatcher, AIDS, and the movies /$cKenneth MacKinnon.
260 $aRutherford :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press ;$aLondon ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c©1992.
300 $a257 pages ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-251) and index.
520 $aThis study of American and British political phenomena and thinking in the eighties uses popular English-language movies of the last two decades as evidence of the influence of the Right - particularly on our conceptions of the family and sexuality. Ultimately, it argues that sociopolitical attitudes toward AIDS were shaped in the eighties by sociopolitical attitudes toward the sexuality most assiduously linked to the syndrome. The study also proposes that, by the seventies, a "frame" had already been fashioned for the picture of AIDS painted in the Reagan-Thatcher years. The decade of the eighties appears, in the United States and Great Britain at least, to have an unusually credible unity and image, thanks to President Reagan's two terms of office and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's three terms. Dominant political thinking shifted dramatically to the Right under these leaders, signaling an end to postwar political consensus and ushering in economic doctrines hostile to "welfarism" and supportive of private enterprise. The eighties was also the period of the appearance of a mysterious new complex eventually called AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which was, at least in the United States in its early years, associated popularly with, above all, homosexual males and intravenous drug users - as well as Haitian immigrants. This book attempts to show how New Right - and particularly Christian fundamentalist - thinking profoundly affected attitudes toward, as well as spending on, the syndrome and both actual and believed-potential sufferers. The intensification of traditional familialism, the attempted balkanization of sexualities, the attacks on homosexuality and on gay rights, are results of the marked influence of the Right on politics on both sides of the Atlantic. These, together with the emphasis on individual responsibility for health and material security - not to mention resurgent machismo and a restored belief in the natural and unnatural - help to explain the health disaster experienced in the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere. A review of English-language cinematic entertainment of the eighties reveals that the health crisis was scarcely alluded to, although such values as those of militarism, masculinity, and family loyalty were addressed - whether supportively or critically. It is the argument of this book that the HIV virus and AIDS are approached, if at all, only obliquely, particularly within the genre of the horror film, and especially through those films dealing with corporeality or with lethal challenges to the traditional nuclear family. The popular entertainment of eighties America and Britain provides eloquent testimony to the dread of AIDS and particularly of the sexuality with which the complex has from the earliest days been associated. The "AIDS imagery" recoverable from eighties movies helps to make visible the linking of negative thought and phobia that has so signally helped to produce the health crisis.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction --$g2.$tReagan-Thatcher Epoch --$g3.$tMovies and the Reagan-Thatcher Epoch --$g4.$tFamilialism --$g5.$tMovies and Familialism --$g6.$tSexuality --$g7.$tMovies and Sexuality --$g8.$tHomosexuality --$g9.$tMovies and Homosexuality --$g10.$tAIDS --$g11.$tMovies and AIDS --$g12.$tSome Key Films --$g13.$tSome Conclusions.
600 10 $aReagan, Ronald.
600 10 $aThatcher, Margaret.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain.
600 12 $aReagan, Ronald.
600 12 $aThatcher, Margaret.
650 12 $aAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
650 22 $aMotion Pictures.
650 22 $aSocial Control, Informal.
600 14 $aThatcher, Margaret.
600 14 $aReagan, Ronald.
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651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
651 7 $aGroßbritannien$2gnd
650 07 $aFilm.$2swd
650 07 $aAIDS.$2swd
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648 7 $aGeschichte 1980-1990$2swd
653 0 $aCulture
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