Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS (1986)

January 1st, 19860h 8min

Animation, Documentary
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Overview

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased homophobia, sexual discrimination and repression of gays.


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