Painful portraits : responding to AIDS in Africa through humanistic engagement of images.

• Main Author: Yong, Hui Ying.
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Documentary
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38730
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper is primarily interested in looking at how the documenting of AIDS in Africa constructs strong and impactful images that will affect the audience to react strongly in the emotional sphere, and thus, allowing the audience to experience the devastation that is caused by the disease. There ar...