Thomas Lawrence Long

AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic [SUNY Series in the Sociology of Culture]

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Softcover. 8vo., 252 pp. First print. Index, Notes. Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis. Here Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated apocalyptic rhetoric in order to mobilize attention to the medical crisis, prevent the spread of the disease, and treat the HIV infected. Among the important figures in AIDS activism and the arts discussed are David Drake, Tim Miller, Sarah Schulman, and Tony Kushner, as well as the organizations ACT UP and Lesbian Avengers. Fine in glossy illustrated wraps. Item #1021202602

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