Introduction 1. Moral Regulation, Film Censorship, and Law 2. Illegal Drug Users and Addiction Narratives: The Early Film Years 3. The 60s On: Counterculture, Addiction-as-Disease, and Mandatory Treatment Narratives 4. Ruptures in Addiction Narratives: Pleasure, Harm Reduction, Consumer Culture, and Regulation 5. Drug Dealers: A Nation Under Siege 6. Vilified Women and Maternal Myths 7. Challenges to the Drug War: 1980 to 2006. Conclusion
Susan C. Boyd is an Associate Professor in Studies in Policy and Practice and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Victoria's Centre for Addiction Research in BC, Canada. She is the author of From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy (2004) and Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths (1999).
"Susan Boyd has done it again! In Drug Films she provides all
interested in the human community’s exploration and use of drugs,
with cinematic revelations about Hollywood’s collaboration with the
government in controlling human inventiveness in expanding
consciousness and developing analgesics."Dennis SullivanInstitute
for Economic and Restorative Justice
"Susan Boyd has done it again! In Drug Films she provides all
interested in the human community’s exploration and use of drugs,
with cinematic revelations about Hollywood’s collaboration with the
government in controlling human inventiveness in expanding
consciousness and developing analgesics." - Dennis Sullivan,
Institute for Economic and Restorative Justice"Fear of drugs has
been carefully cultivated in myth and propaganda for over a
century. The construction and manipulation of that fear is why
punitive prohibition persists despite its savage failures. Susan
Boyd's important new book shows how film has played a starring role
in this drug drama. Her insightful analysis of so many classic
movies is so well written and entertaining you hardly notice that
it is a work of deep scholarship, about drug problems themselves as
well as their cinematic representations." -- Craig Reinarman,
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz,
author of Crack In America
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