TV Research Event: Stuart Marshall—Queer History and Public Activism: the TV essay, the public sphere and the visibility of AIDS in 1980s television – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-06-03 18:00:00 in United Kingdom
BIMI in collaboration with the BIH and LUX presents:
TV Research Event: Stuart Marshall – Queer History and Public Activism: the TV essay, the public sphere and the visibility of AIDS in 1980s television
Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image/Essay Film Festival in collaboration with LUX Artists’ Moving Image, and with the support of Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH)
Friday 3 June, 6:00-9:00pm, Stuart Marshall screenings, with introduction by Conal McStravick
Bright Eyes (Stuart Marshall, 1984, video, 80mins.) A Caught in the Act Production for Channel Four Television.
“Bright Eyes takes up the topic of AIDS but differs from previous coverage by examining the disease’s social and historical context. … Taking a newspaper article from the summer of 1983 as its starting point, Bright Eyes examines the way in which homosexuality has been described as a disease since the late-nineteenth century. … The final part of the programme uses interviews and drama to describe the anti-homosexual reporting of AIDS by the media and other contemporary threats to the gay community.” (LUXonline)
Comrades in Arms (Stuart Marshall, 1990, video, 48mins) Produced by Maya Vision.
“The Second World War is re-examined through the eyes of a group of gay servicemen and servicewomen, whose experiences range from ENSA-style entertainment to the River Kwai prison camp. Personal reminiscences, archive material and stage recreations of gay romances shot in the style of a 1940s back and white movie are combined in an humorous reclamation of a hitherto unrecorded history.” (Rebecca Dobbs, A Directory of British Film and Video Artists, ACE 1994)
To register for the Friday session, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tv-research-event-stuart-marshallqueer-history-and-public-activism-the-tv-essay-the-public-sphere-tickets-24988456145
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