Laura Stamm
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197604038
- eISBN:
- 9780197604076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197604038.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
The Introduction chapter lays out the book’s key arguments, historical and theoretical background, and methodology. By arguing that queer biographical films are biopics, this book asserts that media ...
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The Introduction chapter lays out the book’s key arguments, historical and theoretical background, and methodology. By arguing that queer biographical films are biopics, this book asserts that media studies scholars and film critics have failed to appreciate the biopic’s rich queer legacy. The chapter includes discussions of the biopic’s biomedical history and use as a teaching tool in public school classrooms before demonstrating why the biopic might be attractive to queer filmmakers and audiences during the AIDS era and emergence of New Queer Cinema. Through understanding the queer biopic as a biopic, this book reorients the way we understand the biopic genre itself.Less
The Introduction chapter lays out the book’s key arguments, historical and theoretical background, and methodology. By arguing that queer biographical films are biopics, this book asserts that media studies scholars and film critics have failed to appreciate the biopic’s rich queer legacy. The chapter includes discussions of the biopic’s biomedical history and use as a teaching tool in public school classrooms before demonstrating why the biopic might be attractive to queer filmmakers and audiences during the AIDS era and emergence of New Queer Cinema. Through understanding the queer biopic as a biopic, this book reorients the way we understand the biopic genre itself.
Tamar W. Carroll
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469619880
- eISBN:
- 9781469619903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469619880.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter demonstrates how ACT UP created a supportive queer community for people infected by HIV, as well as how the group changed the nation's response to the AIDS crisis. Through its art and ...
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This chapter demonstrates how ACT UP created a supportive queer community for people infected by HIV, as well as how the group changed the nation's response to the AIDS crisis. Through its art and actions, ACT UP developed an oppositional understanding of AIDS that rejected homophobia and sexual shame and instead called for universal health care and sexual privacy as human rights. Unlike MFY or NCNW, ACT UP generated a community based on affiliation, shared consciousness, and desire. ACT UP members embraced a fluid rather than fixed sexual identity, embracing the term “queer” to signify their rejection of normative sexuality, jettisoning binary understandings of sex and gender.Less
This chapter demonstrates how ACT UP created a supportive queer community for people infected by HIV, as well as how the group changed the nation's response to the AIDS crisis. Through its art and actions, ACT UP developed an oppositional understanding of AIDS that rejected homophobia and sexual shame and instead called for universal health care and sexual privacy as human rights. Unlike MFY or NCNW, ACT UP generated a community based on affiliation, shared consciousness, and desire. ACT UP members embraced a fluid rather than fixed sexual identity, embracing the term “queer” to signify their rejection of normative sexuality, jettisoning binary understandings of sex and gender.
Doug Rossinow
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169882
- eISBN:
- 9780231538657
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169882.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes the manifold crisis that enveloped the “Reagan revolution” from late 1986 through 1988. This was not just a crisis of conservative governance but a crisis of legitimacy for ...
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This chapter describes the manifold crisis that enveloped the “Reagan revolution” from late 1986 through 1988. This was not just a crisis of conservative governance but a crisis of legitimacy for conservatism as a philosophy and movement. The pillars of Reaganism included conservative Christianity and reverence of wealth, the latter often taking the form of cheerleading for financiers. Each of these pillars suffered major blows and showed signs of cracking during the crisis that commenced in late 1986. In November, Ivan Boesky, the high-flying Wall Street arbitrageur, pled guilty to extensive insider trading, and it was revealed that he had cooperated extensively with prosecutors, implicating other figures in American finance. Conservative evangelists were brought low by tawdry sex and corruption scandals. Just as damaging to the politicized version of conservative Christianity was the outcry over the government’s failure to respond to the exploding AIDS crisis. By 1988, a widespread public yearning to turn the page on Reaganite conservatism was palpable.Less
This chapter describes the manifold crisis that enveloped the “Reagan revolution” from late 1986 through 1988. This was not just a crisis of conservative governance but a crisis of legitimacy for conservatism as a philosophy and movement. The pillars of Reaganism included conservative Christianity and reverence of wealth, the latter often taking the form of cheerleading for financiers. Each of these pillars suffered major blows and showed signs of cracking during the crisis that commenced in late 1986. In November, Ivan Boesky, the high-flying Wall Street arbitrageur, pled guilty to extensive insider trading, and it was revealed that he had cooperated extensively with prosecutors, implicating other figures in American finance. Conservative evangelists were brought low by tawdry sex and corruption scandals. Just as damaging to the politicized version of conservative Christianity was the outcry over the government’s failure to respond to the exploding AIDS crisis. By 1988, a widespread public yearning to turn the page on Reaganite conservatism was palpable.
Diane Winston
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS ...
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Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS virus, and conflict over the US bishops’ pastoral letter on AIDS—from seven different news sources, secular and religious. The secular press used sensation and conflict frames to report the news, reflecting the enduring values (in Herbert Gans’s term) shared by the secular news outlets, which cast the Church as antithetical to American identity. Despite a variation in ideological leaning among the Catholic papers, their theological value system, suggested that the meaning of life and the heart of Catholic identity reside in active compassion. The debate over AIDS offered Catholics two alternatives. While the secular press depicted the choices as liberal or conservative—and implicitly secular (American) or religious (Catholic)—the sectarian press presented them as two theological orientations and options for loving service.Less
Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS virus, and conflict over the US bishops’ pastoral letter on AIDS—from seven different news sources, secular and religious. The secular press used sensation and conflict frames to report the news, reflecting the enduring values (in Herbert Gans’s term) shared by the secular news outlets, which cast the Church as antithetical to American identity. Despite a variation in ideological leaning among the Catholic papers, their theological value system, suggested that the meaning of life and the heart of Catholic identity reside in active compassion. The debate over AIDS offered Catholics two alternatives. While the secular press depicted the choices as liberal or conservative—and implicitly secular (American) or religious (Catholic)—the sectarian press presented them as two theological orientations and options for loving service.
George Joffé
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198749028
- eISBN:
- 9780191811630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198749028.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Despite the autocratic nature of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, its weakness in Cyrenaica (Libya’s eastern province) became apparent in the 1990s. A series of protests there over specific issues—the ...
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Despite the autocratic nature of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, its weakness in Cyrenaica (Libya’s eastern province) became apparent in the 1990s. A series of protests there over specific issues—the deaths at Abu Salim prison in 1996, the children’s AIDS crisis in Benghazi, and the cartoons protest in 2006—allowed embryonic social movements using civil resistance to emerge. Regime attempts to suppress demonstrations linked to these events provoked a general uprising against it in Cyrenaica in mid-February 2011, which spread into Tripolitania and the Fezzan (the western and southern provinces respectively). Although civil society flourished after the removal of the Gaddafi regime, the failure of formal governance over the next four years led to extremist attempts to suppress any manifestation of civil resistance. The reasons for this are rooted in the nature of the previous regime as well as in the way in which the Libyan revolution evolved.Less
Despite the autocratic nature of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, its weakness in Cyrenaica (Libya’s eastern province) became apparent in the 1990s. A series of protests there over specific issues—the deaths at Abu Salim prison in 1996, the children’s AIDS crisis in Benghazi, and the cartoons protest in 2006—allowed embryonic social movements using civil resistance to emerge. Regime attempts to suppress demonstrations linked to these events provoked a general uprising against it in Cyrenaica in mid-February 2011, which spread into Tripolitania and the Fezzan (the western and southern provinces respectively). Although civil society flourished after the removal of the Gaddafi regime, the failure of formal governance over the next four years led to extremist attempts to suppress any manifestation of civil resistance. The reasons for this are rooted in the nature of the previous regime as well as in the way in which the Libyan revolution evolved.
James L. Heft and Una M. Cadegan (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as ...
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This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as presentations in a September 2013 conference but have been expanded and edited for this book. Their organizing idea is that Catholic intellectual work always occurs “in the lógos of love,” as described by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This description of truth opening and uniting minds offers rich possibilities for thinking about contemporary intellectual life. Topics include the place of Catholic intellectual tradition in professional education and in the secular university; emerging understandings of the role of women, especially in the study of gender and sexuality, but in many other areas as well; the relationship between the United States and the global church; and the role of the media in depicting Catholicism and in transforming what is necessary in handing on a tradition.Less
This book contains chapters covering theology, history, law, and media studies of religion about the current situation and potential of Catholic intellectual life. Most of the chapters originated as presentations in a September 2013 conference but have been expanded and edited for this book. Their organizing idea is that Catholic intellectual work always occurs “in the lógos of love,” as described by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This description of truth opening and uniting minds offers rich possibilities for thinking about contemporary intellectual life. Topics include the place of Catholic intellectual tradition in professional education and in the secular university; emerging understandings of the role of women, especially in the study of gender and sexuality, but in many other areas as well; the relationship between the United States and the global church; and the role of the media in depicting Catholicism and in transforming what is necessary in handing on a tradition.