Dancing for Our Lives: Danced Lives in HIV/AIDS Literature and Film

本文确定了20世纪80年代和90年代美国和英国艺术家应对艾滋病危机的内在舞蹈想象。纵观电影、文学和舞蹈，我认为酷儿艺术家们用运动来概念化他们在世纪末的生存。我认为，未能注意到这些运动的模式，已经导致文化史忽视了1968年式的抗议活动和艾滋病时代的舞蹈实践的影响，这些抗议活动和舞蹈实践是在危机之后纪念失去和建立同性恋社会规范的。采用跨学科的方法，本论文通过恢复舞蹈在其中的地位，重新激活了艾滋病活动的文化史。在表演、电影和文学研究中，我研究了中间性、酷儿、行动主义、舞蹈批评和自传，探索了运动在这个时期的表现如何困扰着关于酷儿工作和生存的想法。

This thesis identifies the intrinsically choreographic imaginary of artists responding to the AIDS crisis inthe 1980s and 1990s in the US and UK. Looking across film, literature and dance, I argue that queerartists used movement to conceptualise their survival at the end of the century. The failure to notice thepatterns of these movements, I propose, has caused cultural histories to lose sight of the reverberationsof 1968-style protests and choreographic practices in the AIDS era in their memorialising of loss andestablishing of homosocial norms in the wake of the crisis. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, thisthesis (re)animates cultural histories of AIDS activism by restoring the place of the choreographic withinthem. Contributing to performance, film, and literary studies discourses on intermediality, queerness,activism, dance criticism and autobiography, I explore how representations of movement in the periodtroubled ideas about queer work and survival.