Patrick Johnson was awarded the Top Student Paper award from the Associate for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) LGBTQ Interest Group. Patrick is a Graduate Student as well as Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Learn more about Patrick.

Patrick's paper, titled “Snake in the Grass: Adapting sex and sexuality from journalistic truth to the silver screen,” interrogates how issues of sex and sexuality are adapted from journalistic narratives to biographic films. He uses a critical/cultural approach to textual analysis to study the journalistic accounts of the murder of a gay porn producer, how the story is adapted to film in King Cobra, and how the audience and critics received the film. The paper addresses how truth is adapted and understood through the framework of hedonism, as well as provides recommendations for translating stories about sexually marginalized communities from journalistic accounts to the silver screen.

Patrick will be presenting his paper at the AEJMC Annual Conference, which will be held virtually August 4-7, 2021. He will receive a complimentary conference registration as a paper winner, a plaque and monetary award in recognition of this honor.

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