Hooked - Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.s.

Informationen zum Autor Susan C. Boyd Klappentext Boyd explores over a century of American, British, and Canadian films containing fictional representations of drug use, the drug trade, and the war on drugs. Zusammenfassung Boyd explores over a century of American! British! and Canadian films containing fictional representations of drug use! the drug trade! and the war on drugs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents     List of Film StillsixAcknowledgmentsxi Introduction11Moral Regulation, Film Censorship, and Law102 Illegal-Drug Users and Addiction Narratives: The Early Film Years303 The 60s On: Counterculture, Addiction-as-Disease, and Mandatory-Treatment Narratives634Ruptures in Addiction Narratives: Pleasure, Harm Reduction, Consumer Culture, and Regulation935Drug Dealers: A Nation Under Siege1126Vilified Women and Maternal Myths1467Challenges to the Drug War: 1980 to 2006178Appendix209Notes213References227Index241

Product details

• Authors: Susan C Boyd, Susan C. Boyd, Not Available, Susan C. Boyd
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2009
• EAN: 9781442610170
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1017-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Fernsehen, TV