Positive Images : Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of 'Post Crisis'.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Introduction: Crisis/Post-Crisis -- Belated Diagnosis -- Crisis/Post-Crisis -- 'Post-Crisis' -- Chapter Outline -- Crisis Discourse -- After Antiretrovirals -- 1. Gay Redemption: Domestication and Disavowal in The Gay 90s -- 'The Big A' -- The Gay 90s Revisited -- Abjection and AIDS -- The Next Best Thing -- Watering, Working and Not Wearing Much -- Look What Happened to Me -- Abject Lessons -- 2. Positive Men Are from Mars, Negative Men Are from Venus: Sero-melodrama in Queer As Folk -- 'Sero-melodrama' -- How Queer is Queer as Folk? -- Perfect, Except for One Thing -- Positive Men Are from Mars, Negative Men Are from Venus -- Melodrama, Narrative Complexity and Post-Crisis Ambivalence -- 3. Crisis Re-Runs: Barebacking, Chemsex and Post-Crisis Sex Panic -- Chemsex -- Déjà vu -- What is Barebacking? -- The Neal Hearings -- 'HIV Man' -- 'Re-Crisis' -- Neoliberal Biopolitics and the Logic of Epidemic -- Ambivalent Afterlives -- 4. AIDS Heritage in The Line of Beauty -- Queer High Pop Heritage -- The Heritage Debates -- Heritage Ga(y)ze -- Homeless Love -- Belonging -- Eviction -- AIDS Heritage and Post-Crisis -- 5. AIDS Retrovisions: Dallas Buyers Club and The Normal Heart -- Turning Away -- Turning Back -- Updating Sentimental Melodrama in Dallas Buyers Club -- After the Orgy: Teleological AIDS History in The Normal Heart -- Backward/Forward -- Feeling Generational -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Film and Television References -- Index.

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