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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Susan C Boyd |
ISBN: | 9780415957069 0415957060 |
OCLC Number: | 167507863 |
Description: | xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Moral regulation, film censorship, and law -- 2. Illegal-drug users and addiction narratives : the early film years -- 3. The 60s on : counterculture, addiction-as-disease, and mandatory-treatment narratives -- 4. Ruptures in addiction narratives : pleasure, harm reduction, consumer culture, and regulation -- 5. Drug dealers : a nation under siege -- 6. Vilified women and maternal myths -- 7. Challenges to the drug war : 1980 to 2006. |
Series Title: | Routledge advances in criminology, 4. |
Responsibility: | Susan C. Boyd. |
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"Susan Boyd has done it again! In Drug Films she provides all interested in the human community's exploration and use of drugs, with cinematic revelations about Hollywood's collaboration with the government in controlling human inventiveness in expanding consciousness and developing analgesics." - Dennis Sullivan, Institute for Economic and Restorative Justice"Fear of drugs has been carefully cultivated in myth and propaganda for over a century. The construction and manipulation of that fear is why punitive prohibition persists despite its savage failures. Susan Boyd's important new book shows how film has played a starring role in this drug drama. Her insightful analysis of so many classic movies is so well written and entertaining you hardly notice that it is a work of deep scholarship, about drug problems themselves as well as their cinematic representations." -- Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Crack In America Read more...

