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Susan C Boyd

Hooked

Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,7 cm / 15,3 cm / 3,0 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781442610170

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256 Seiten
September 2009
University of Toronto Press

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.

Susan C. Boyd is a professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria.

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