Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.Routledge, 2010年9月13日 - 262 頁 Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006, including Broken Blossoms, Reefer Madness, The Trip, Superfly, Withnail and I, Traffik, Traffic, Layer Cake, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Trailer Park Boys, and more. Boyd focuses on past and contemporary illegal drug discourse about users, traffickers, drug treatment, and the intersection of criminal justice with counterculture, alternative, and stoner flicks. She provides a socio-historical and cultural criminological perspective, and an analysis of race, class and gender representations in illegal drug films. This illuminating work will be an essential text for a wide range of students and scholars in the fields of criminology, sociology, media, gender and women’s studies, drug studies, and cultural studies. |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 57 筆
... movie. It is loosely based on the earlier British made-for-television miniseries Traffik (1989). In the U.S. film, Mexico, which is represented as the illegal-drug- source country, is depicted as barbaric and uncivilized, where life is ...
... movies—and the stories that film producers ignored. Whereas I examined drug myths in my earlier analysis of Traffic, in this study I wanted to look more closely at drug discourse, film narrative, and visual representations. I was ...
... movies at home than in cinemas. We are inundated with illegal-drug representations. The criteria for my sample was simply any Canadian, British, or U.S. film with a focus primarily on illegal drugs, trafficking, and their consequences ...
... . Less than a century ago, cocaine and heroin were legal substances. Drug movies depict the demonization of drugs, and, more often than not, criminalization and prohibition are celebrated. The illegal status of specific.
... movies as individualized stories, one might look at some films as an “accomplice to empire” building and domination; 20 thus, films that “rupture” empire and domination are noteworthy. Although discourse about illegal drugs speaks ...
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List of Film Stills | |
Broken Blossoms 36 | |
The Pace that Kills 46 | |
The Man with the Golden Arm 56 | |
CHAPTER 3 | |
The Panic in Needle Park 76 | |
A Nation Under Siege 112 | |
Cleopatra Jones 121 | |
Maria Full of Grace 139 | |
Vilified Women and Maternal Myths 146 | |
1980 to 2006 178 | |
Appendix 209 | 36 |
CHAPTER 6 | 2000 |
References 227 | 2008 |
CHAPTER 4 | |
Gridlockd 101 | |
Reefer Madness 147 | 2026 |
Index 241 | 2029 |