Face of AIDS : the making of an online archive / Martin Kristenson & Fredrik B. Persson -- Witnessing AIDS in the archive / Anna Sofia Rossholm & Beate Schirrmacher -- Voices of AIDS : the HIV virus and the shaping of a cultural memory / Cecilia Trenter -- "A disease on top of a disease" : people with hemophilia through the face of AIDS film archive / Daniel Normark -- Performativity and documentary aesthetics in Staffan Hildebrand's earliest conference films on AIDS in the 1980s / Tommy Gustafsson -- Disease, representation, and activism : Crossover : the global impact of AIDS (1988) and its reverberations / David Thorsén -- A positive positive? : intersectional analysis of identification and counter-identification in three contemporary HIV narratives / Desireé Ljungcrantz -- Waiting for a cure : cultural perspectives on AIDS in the 1980s / Adam Brenthel & Kristofer Hansson -- Social suffering as symbolic violence : LGBT experiences in the Face of AIDS film archive / Marco Bacio & Cirus Rinaldi -- Constructions of safe sex : between desire and governmentality / Mariah Larsson -- Sins of the fathers : syphilis, HIV/AIDS, and innocent women and children / Elisabet Björklund -- Archiving AIDS activist video : a conversation with Jim Hubbard / Dagmar Brunow -- Documenting the journey from AIDS to HIV on film / Staffan Hildebrand
Summary:
The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic and includes scenes from conferences and rallies, and interviews with activists, physicians, people with the infection, and researchers. It represents a global historical development from the early years of the AIDS crisis to a situation in which it is possible to live a normal life with the HIV virus. This volume brings together a range of academic perspectives - from media and film studies, medical history, gender studies, history, and cultural studies - to bear on the archive, shedding light on memories, discourses, trauma, and activism. Using a medical humanities framework, the editors explore the influence of historical representations of HIV/AIDS and stigma in a world where antiretroviral treatment has fundamentally altered the conditions under which many people diagnosed with HIV live. Organized into four sections, this book begins by introducing the archive and its role, setting it in a global context. This interdisciplinary collection is placed at the intersection of medical humanities, sexuality studies and film and media studies, continuing a tradition of studies on the cultural and social understandings of HIV/AIDS
