| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 369 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Attacking the drug problem, 1900-1959: cinema and the temperance movement -- Marijuana, 1960-2010: a social and cinematic reappraisal -- Heroin in film, 1960-2010: the continued spiral into death and destruction -- Cocaine, 1960-2010: crack changes the social and cinematic landscape -- A drug miscellany: social and cinematic problematic drugs -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
In Hooked in Film, John Markert takes a close look at the correlation between social policies and the public view of drugs and their portrayals in film. In this volume, Markert examines the changing social attitudes toward illegal drugs and their cinematic depictions from as early as the 1894 film Chinese Opium Den to the present. Tracking hundreds of films spanning more than a century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drugs in motion pictures.
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Drugs in motion pictures. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hooked in film Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013. 9780810891302 (hbk. : alk. paper) (DLC) 2013002592 |
| ISBN |
9780810891319 ebook |
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081089131X |
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9780810891302 hardback : alkaline paper |
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9780810891319 ebook |
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1299821367 (electronic book) |
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9781299821361 (electronic book) |
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0810891301 |
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