1st Edition
Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires AIDS in the News Media
By Deborah Lupton
Copyright 1994
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
197 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in "making sense" of AIDS. This volume takes an interdisciplinary perspective, combining cultural studies, history of... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 AIDS as News; Chapter 2 Analysing News; Chapter 3 The Early Years of AIDS Reporting; Chapter 4 The ‘Grim Reaper’ Period of AIDS Reporting; Chapter 5 AIDS Reporting in 1990; Chapter 6 AIDS, Textuality and Ideology; Chapter 7 Epilogue: AIDS as News in the Second Decade;
Biography
Deborah Lupton
