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Among the many films that A-list Hollywood screenwriter Arnold Schulman helped create, 1993年的《bet8体育娱乐入口》,” is unique in its blend of truth-telling and sharp social commentary.
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode and written by Schulman based on a book by Randy Shilts, it relates the story of the early AIDS epidemic and how politics within the scientific community blunted early efforts to stem the spread of the disease — costing countless lives.
这部电影由马修·摩丁主演, Alan Alda and Patrick Bauchau and includes appearances by Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Steve Martin — even musician Phil Collins.
It won a slew of awards including two Emmys and netted Schulman a Humanitas prize in 1994.
“It has an all-star cast who volunteered to make the movie,舒尔曼的儿子说, 彼得·舒尔曼, a professor of world languages and cultures at bet8体育娱乐入口. “It’s also an extraordinary piece of writing. It went through maybe 60 drafts — maybe the Guinness Book of World Records winner for number of revisions. ODU库拥有所有这些.”
12月12日星期一. 4, ODU will host an event called “And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic.“电影将在下午6点半上映.m. at the Michael and Kimthanh Lê Digital Theater and Planetarium. The screening is sponsored by the University’s Department of World Languages and 文化s to celebrate the Eastern Virginia Medical School’s merger with ODU.
Following the movie, a panel will discuss the film and media’s role in promoting public health.
小组成员将是:
- Mekbib Gemeda, vice president of diversity and inclusion, EVMS
- Kate Hawkins, professor of communication, ODU
- Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, assistant professor of film studies, ODU
- Cathleen Rhodes, director of Gay Cultural Studies, ODU
The event follows World AIDS Day 2023, Friday, Dec. 1.
“The AIDS epidemic is an important and painful part of queer history,” Rhodes said. “AIDS activism galvanized and activated many queer people, but it also decimated the community. We cannot talk about the present or imagine the future without contending with the effects of AIDS on queer history.”
Films and media have played a big role in shaping public opinions and reactions to the emergence of the AIDS epidemic, Moradiyan-Rizi补充道.
“The screening of ‘And the Band Played On,’ as one of the major films that addressed the AIDS epidemic in its early decades, will allow us to productively contextualize the early socio-cultural and political responses to this epidemic, 除了医疗方面,Moradiyan-Rizi写道, “and to further put them in conversation with the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the need for global humanitarian actions that challenge marginalization and inequality.”
Hawkins said — as a health communicator, — she searches for ways to improve messaging so that people feel empowered and protected. “Reflecting on health communication at the time when the HIV/AIDS virus was first discovered will help us understand how far we have progressed — or perhaps have not progressed — in addressing health communication challenges.”
The idea for the movie screening and discussion stemmed from 彼得·舒尔曼’s recent donation to the university of a large trove of his father’s papers.
阿诺德·舒尔曼于2月4日去世后, his son holed up in his father’s Los Angeles apartment to organize an enormous collection of scripts, 戏剧, 笔记, and correspondence in preparation for the ODU donation. 这项工作一直持续到夏天.
His father had been a lauded screenwriter for 50 years. He had earned a pair of Oscar nominations, 艾美奖, and contributed to classic films including “A Chorus Line,“塔克,“再见，哥伦布!”,除其他外.
For any scholar of cinema — or American popular culture — it’s a tantalizing collection.
“There is a lot of film history that ODU is getting, as you can imagine,” Schulman said. He sent more than 18 boxes of his work, including drafts for what would have been Marilyn Monroe’s final film had she not died in the middle of it.
“Today, most Hollywood writers don’t work for five decades,” Schulman said. “如果他们能得到两个，那就很幸运了.”
Schulman said his father wanted to work on “And the Band Played On” because AIDS wasn’t seen as a hot topic in film at the time.
“It had substance, and it was an important message to get out,” he said. 他对激进主义很感兴趣, defending doctors against the politics of it all, and fighting for the sick and against greed.”