Hooked : drug war films in Britain, Canada, and the United States
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.
eBook, English, [2009], c2008
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, [2009], c2008
1 online resource (xii, 250 pages : illustrations)
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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, andMandatory-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
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