A Visual History of HIV/AIDS

The Face of AIDS film archive consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of nearly thirty years and all over the world by Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS epidemic and includes scenes from conferences and rallies, and interviews with activists, physicians, people with the infection, and researchers. This volume brings together a range of academic perspectives - from media and film studies, medicine, medical history, gender studies, history, and cultural studies - to bear on the archive, shedding light on memories, discourses, trauma, and activism.

Elisabet Björklund is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Mariah Larsson is a Professor in Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Preface Paula A. Treichler Part I: Archives, Memories, Histories 1. Face of AIDS: The Making of an Online Archive Martin Kristenson & Fredrik B. Persson 2. Witnessing AIDS in the Archive Anna Sofia Rossholm & Beate Schirrmacher 3. Voices of AIDS: The HIV Virus and the Shaping of a Cultural Memory Cecilia Trenter 4. "A Disease on Top of a Disease": People with Hemophilia through the Face of AIDS Film Archive Daniel Normark Part II: Aesthetics, Representations, Narratives 5. Performativity and Documentary Aesthetics in Staffan Hildebrand's Earliest Conference Films on AIDS in the 1980s Tommy Gustafsson 6. Disease, Representation, and Activism: Crossover: The Global Impact of AIDS (1988) and its Reverberations David Thorsén 7. A Positive Positive? Intersectional Analysis of Identification and Counter-identification in three Contemporary HIV Narratives Desireé Ljungcrantz Part III: Stigma and Trauma 8. Waiting for a Cure: Cultural Perspectives on AIDS in the 1980s Adam Brenthel & Kristofer Hansson 9. Social Suffering as Symbolic Violence: LGBT Experiences in the Face of AIDS Film Archive Marco Bacio & Cirus Rinaldi 10. Constructions of Safe Sex: Between Desire and Governmentality Mariah Larsson 11. Sins of the Fathers? Syphilis, HIV/AIDS, and Innocent Women and Children Elisabet Björklund Part IV: Activism and Auteurism 12. Archiving AIDS Activist Video: A Conversation with Jim Hubbard Dagmar Brunow 13. Documenting the Journey from AIDS to HIV on Film Staffan Hildebrand