Download PDF by John Markert: Hooked in Film: Substance Abuse on the Big Screen

In Hooked in Film, John Markert takes an in depth examine the correlation among social guidelines and the general public view of substances and their portrayals in movie. during this quantity, Markert examines the altering social attitudes towards unlawful medicinal drugs and their cinematic depictions from as early because the 1894 movie Chinese Opium Den to the current. the 1st part of this ebook specializes in the demonization of gear among 1900 and 1959, by way of an evaluate of marijuana at the titanic monitor after 1960, while the drug used to be proven as a part of daily life without severe outcomes. Post-1960 depictions of heroin use, that have remained always destructive, also are analyzed. Markert then takes a detailed examine the portrayals of powdered cocaine after the Nineteen Sixties and the emergence of crack within the mid-1980s. ultimately, Markert discusses hallucinogens, Ecstasy, and methamphetamines and their roles at the immense monitor.

Tracking 1000's of movies 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 stories, and sociology will locate this publication a worthwhile exam of ways cinematic portrayals of substances have replaced through the years, and the way these pictures have motivated public belief of substances or even public coverage.