Essay: On Reading 'Velvet Goldmine' as a Reaction To AIDS Activism Burnout ... - Indie Wire (blog)

Essay: On Reading 'Velvet Goldmine' as a Reaction To AIDS Activism Burnout ... Indie Wire (blog) The thematic centrepiece was Todd Haynes's 1998 glam rock retrospective "Velvet Goldmine." I argued that "Velvet Goldmine," at the time of it was made, was reacting to the melancholic burnout that had affected AIDS activists in the 1990s. Last autumn I ...