Hooked

Boyd explores over a century of American, British, and Canadian films containing fictional representations of drug use, the drug trade, and the war on drugs.

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

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