Table of Contents

Contents

 

 

List of Film StillsixAcknowledgmentsxi Introduction11Moral Regulation, Film Censorship, and Law102 Illegal-Drug Users and Addiction Narratives:
The Early Film Years303 The 60s On: Counterculture, Addiction-as-Disease, and
Mandatory-Treatment Narratives634Ruptures in Addiction Narratives: Pleasure, Harm Reduction,
Consumer Culture, and Regulation935Drug Dealers: A Nation Under Siege1126Vilified Women and Maternal Myths1467Challenges to the Drug War: 1980 to 2006178Appendix209Notes213References227Index241

Promotional Information

'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, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Crack In America

About the Author

Susan C. Boyd is a professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria.

Reviews

'In Hooked, Susan Boyd provides a useful and substantive contribution both to the literature on drug representations and to a larger body of developing cultural, feminist and critical criminology ... Boyd insists that the negative mythologies of drug use persist across the US, Britain, and Canada, with Hollywood productions the most deeply bound up with war-on-drugs/law and order drug war ideologies ... Ultimately, Boyd makes a critical contribution that marks how positive and alternative images of drug use and altered states of consciousness are difficult to find.'
*Michelle Brown, Canadian Journal of Sociology*