Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

Release date: 1986-01-01
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Genres: Animation, Documentary
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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