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List of Film StillsixAcknowledgmentsxi Introduction11Moral Regulation, Film Censorship, and Law102 Illegal-Drug Users and Addiction Narratives:
'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
Susan C. Boyd is a professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria.
'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*
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