By John Markert
ISBN-10: 0810891301
ISBN-13: 9780810891302
In
Hooked in Film, John Markert takes a detailed examine the correlation among social regulations and the general public view of gear and their portrayals in movie. during this quantity, Markert examines the altering social attitudes towards unlawful medicines and their cinematic depictions from as early because the 1894 movie Chinese Opium Den to the current. the 1st portion of this e-book makes a speciality of the demonization of substances among 1900 and 1959, by means of an overview of marijuana at the significant monitor after 1960, while the drug was once proven as a part of lifestyle without critical results. Post-1960 depictions of heroin use, that have remained always adverse, also are analyzed. Markert then takes a detailed examine the portrayals of powdered cocaine after the Sixties and the emergence of crack within the mid-1980s. eventually, Markert discusses hallucinogens, Ecstasy, and methamphetamines and their roles at the substantial monitor.Tracking 1000s of flicks spanning greater than a century,
Hooked in movie looks at camp classics like Reefer Madness, comedies comparable to Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke, Dazed and Confused, and Pineapple Express, and dramas, together with Panic in Needle Park and Requiem for a Dream. students and scholars of cinema, pop culture, media reviews, and sociology will locate this ebook a useful exam of the way cinematic portrayals of substances have replaced over the years, and the way these photos have inspired public conception of gear or even public coverage.
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