Where The Drug Films Are

Author : National Institute on Drug Abuse. Communications Services Branch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Drug Films are written by National Institute on Drug Abuse. Communications Services Branch and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Markert
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081089131X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hooked in Film written by John Markert and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the harmful effects of drugs. Throughout the decades, images of drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and heroin in films impacted—both negatively and positively—the national perception of their use. In fact, the use, popularity, and opinion of certain drugs often follow their status on the big screen. In Hooked in Film, John Markerttakes 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. The first section of this book focuses on the demonization of drugs between 1900 and 1959, followed by an assessment of marijuana on the big screen after 1960, when the drug was shown as part of everyday life with no serious consequences. Post-1960 depictions of heroin use, which have remained consistently negative, are also analyzed. Markert then takes a close look at the portrayals of powdered cocaine after the 1960s and the emergence of crack in the mid-1980s. Finally, Markert discusses hallucinogens, Ecstasy, and methamphetamines and their roles on the big screen. Tracking hundreds of films spanning more than a century, Hooked in Film looks at camp classics like Reefer Madness, comedies such as Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke, Dazed and Confused, and Pineapple Express, and dramas, including Panic in Needle Park and Requiem for a Dream. Scholars and students of cinema, popular culture, media studies, and sociology will find this book a valuable examination of how cinematic portrayals of drugs have changed over time, and how those images have influenced public perception of drugs and even public policy.

Author : Susan C. Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135909245
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. written by Susan C. Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jack Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addicted written by Jack Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated, edited collection of highly charged essays, Addicted presents a general historical overview of the interchange between drugs and cinema before focusing on: specific genres, key films such as Performance, Trainspotting, and Scarface, and foreign language films.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug Abuse Films written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Drug Abuse Education Films written by National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Starks
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1579511899
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness written by Michael Starks and published by Ronin Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest groups, and this struggle is clearly evident in the history of drug films. Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness is an exhaustive exploration of the history of the depiction of psychoactive drugs in motion pictures from Thomas Edison's Opium Smoker (1894) to Cocaine Cowboys (1978), Included are over 400 silent and 1,000 sound films as well as nearly 500 drug-abuse films, 85 experimental films, and 135 television programs. More than 150 stills, most never before published and many extremely rare, illustrate the text. Arranged chronologically as well as by drug type and often by country, this book shows that, far from being a recent phenomenon, drug films were made in nearly every country and period that produced a significant body of films. Visit Edison's first film studio, reflect on the filmic consequences of Cocteau's opium addiction with Kenneth Anger's early experiences with magic mushrooms, see Charles Laughton smuggling cocaine inside a statute of the Buddha, and watch Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., consuming vast quantities of opium and cocaine in a World War I Sherlock Holmes parody.

Author : Center for Multicultural Awareness (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug Abuse Prevention Films written by Center for Multicultural Awareness (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 200 16 mm. films, videocassettes, and filmstrips about drug abuse among Asian/Pacific islanders, Blacks, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians in the United States. Intended for use in drug prevention programs. Entries arranged both by groups and by broad subjects, e.g., Life skills, Parent education, and Staff training. Each entry gives descriptive information, also including expected audience. Many cross references. Title index.

Author : University of California, Berkeley. Extension Media Center
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 99 [plus] Films on Drugs written by University of California, Berkeley. Extension Media Center and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Films from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Free-loan Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: