Death in the streets, blood on your hands: Chocolate Babies and the 'end' of AIDS
Death in the streets, blood on your hands: Chocolate Babies and the 'end' of AIDS
This article considers Stephen Winter's Chocolate Babies (1996), a low-budget feature made amid, and in response to, the ravages of AIDS in New York City. Paying close attention to the film's conjunctural cinematic syntax, I argue that Winter here critiques a once-prominent consensus that rapid biomedical advancements were bringing about the epidemic's "end." Throughout, I put Chocolate Babies in dialogue with numerous critics who refused to accept the politically vacant terms of biomedicine as a neat conclusion to the decades-long struggle against AIDS. Winter's film, I ultimately suggest, extends such antagonisms, affirming the necessity of an enduring state of emergency.
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Mills, Robert
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1 March 2023
Mills, Robert
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Mills, Robert
(2023)
Death in the streets, blood on your hands: Chocolate Babies and the 'end' of AIDS.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 62 (3), .
(doi:10.1353/cj.2023.0028).
Abstract
This article considers Stephen Winter's Chocolate Babies (1996), a low-budget feature made amid, and in response to, the ravages of AIDS in New York City. Paying close attention to the film's conjunctural cinematic syntax, I argue that Winter here critiques a once-prominent consensus that rapid biomedical advancements were bringing about the epidemic's "end." Throughout, I put Chocolate Babies in dialogue with numerous critics who refused to accept the politically vacant terms of biomedicine as a neat conclusion to the decades-long struggle against AIDS. Winter's film, I ultimately suggest, extends such antagonisms, affirming the necessity of an enduring state of emergency.
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