Toronto Living with AIDS

Investigates an extraordinary moment in the histories of both activist media and AIDS activism: the creation of a community-driven video series about HIV/AIDS for public-access cable television in Toronto in early 1990s. Includes detailed historical work on the series, its creators, public reception, circulation, and censorship by Rogers Cable.

Info autore

Ryan Conrad is an activist and video maker based in the Ottawa Valley. He is also an Adjunct Research Faculty member at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University. From 2019-2022 he was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Cinema and Media Studies at York University where he led the AIDS Activist Media case study for Archive/Counter-Archive.

Riassunto

Investigates an extraordinary moment in the histories of activist media and AIDS activism: the creation of a community-driven video series about HIV/AIDS for public-access cable television in Toronto in the early 1990s. Ryan Conrad has done detailed historical work on the series, its creators, public reception, circulation, and censorship.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Ryan Conrad (Editore)
• Editore: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.04.2024
• EAN: 9780921344582
• ISBN: 978-0-921344-58-2
• Pagine: 296
• Illustrazioni: digital video stills, full colour 37
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie