Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era

by Laura Stamm

Book Overview

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema. Author Laura Stamm asks why queer filmmakers repeatedly produced biographical films of queer individuals living and dead throughout the years surrounding the AIDS crisis. Queer
filmmakers' engagement with the biopic evokes the genre's history of building life through the portrayal of lives worthy of admiration and emulation but it also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197604048
• ISBN13: 9780197604045
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"