Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

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Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

1986

0h 8m

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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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