{"id":47,"date":"2010-01-11T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T23:17:10","slug":"expression_life_act_up_video_and_the_aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/expression_life_act_up_video_and_the_aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video, and the AIDS Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/237124818\"><em>Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video, and the AIDS Crisis.<\/em> Prod. Mark Read. DVD. Deep Dish TV, 2008. 180 min. $350.00 (Institutional); $50 (Individual). ISBN: 9781607020806.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bloglink\"><em>Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video, and the AIDS Crisis,<\/em> joins other recent projects (e.g., retrospective exhibits and the ACT UP Oral History Project) that remember \u2014 and critically return to \u2014 the work of ACT UP, a direct-action group founded in New York City in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Disc one of <em>Expression = Life<\/em> presents a collection of AIDS activist videos in their entirety: Angry Initiatives, Defiant Strategies (1998), Be a Diva (1990), Like<br \/>\na Prayer (1991), and Transformer AIDS (1991). Disc two offers a one-hour compilation of clips from the four films (as well as Book of James (2002) and Target: City Hall (1989)) and a panel discussion about the films. Panel speakers include former ACT UP members, documentarians, and media studies scholars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Expression = Life<\/em> works on a number of levels: the videos document AIDS activism in New York in the late 1980s to early 1990s, and exemplify citizen journalism during those years. Both the videos\u2014and the actions they document\u2014critique dominant AIDS discourses. The panel discussion further elucidates tensions between ACT UP and mass media, and considers the state of AIDS activism in the present.<\/p>\n<p><em>Expression = Life<\/em> is accessible to a wide audience, with the caveat that it employs graphic language in its commentary on queer culture, sexual practices, illness, death, and political indifference. It is recommended for all libraries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Alana Kumbier<\/strong><br \/>\nResearch and Instruction Librarian<br \/>\nWellesley College<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video, and the AIDS Crisis. Prod. Mark Read. DVD. Deep Dish TV, 2008. 180 min. $350.00 (Institutional); $50 (Individual). ISBN: 9781607020806. Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video, and the AIDS Crisis, joins other recent projects (e.g., retrospective exhibits and the ACT UP Oral History Project) that remember \u2014 and critically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,35,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}