Reframing bodies: AIDS, bearing witness, and the queer moving image

Abstract

Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Historical Trauma and the Performance of Talking Heads 35 2. The Embodied Immediacy of Direct Action: Space and Movement in AIDS Video Activism 77 3. Related Bodies: Resisting Confession in Autobiographical AIDS Video 113 4. Queer Anachronism and the Testimonial Space of Song 151 5. Gay Cinephilia and the Cherished Body of Experimental Film 185 6. Sound, Image, and the Corporeal Implication of Witnessing 217 Afterword 241 Notes 253 Bibliography 291 Index 307