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 81 筆
... violent, corrupt, and involved in drug trafficking. The military authorities are depicted as ruthless and sadistic (evidenced by a torture scene). Scenes shot in the United States situate Black men, and street dealers, in the inner city ...
... violent sexual predators who lure innocent White women into addiction. Similar discourse about Asian men informed early illegal-drug films. The opium den was depicted as a site of addiction and degradation. Fears about the “mixing of ...
... violent, contagious, and threatening. The drugs examined in this study are criminalized: marijuana, ecstasy, LSD, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. But they were not always categorized as illegal drugs. Less than a century ago ...
... violence; and with the abandonment of “rational consciousness.” Colonization and continues to be accompanied by the ... violent masculinity) is envisioned as separating the “savage” from the West. They suggest that frontier justice “is ...
... violence and that Chinese men were busy corrupting innocent White women. Thus, federal law to prohibit opium and cocaine was not opposed, even though there has never been any empirical evidence to suggest that these claims were true.38 ...
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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 |