| Description |
1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface: On Being Wasted in America; PART I REPRESENTING WASTED METAPHORS; 1 Writing Belushi/Performing America: Addiction, National Identity, and the Cultural Mythos of "Waste" in Wired1; PART II STAGING WASTED HISTORIES; 2 Welcome (Again) to the Circus: Resurrecting the Freak Show and the Inebriate Asylum in A & E's Intervention1; 3 Re-Visiting Literary Realism: Adaptation, Ideology, and the Metaphor of Waste in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City and Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero |
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4 "My name is Jim, and I'm an alcoholic": Peddling the Wasteful Propaganda of 12-Step Treatment in Peter Cohn's DrunksPART III PERFORMING WASTED LIVES; 5 "Real People With Real Stories":1 Anti-Drug PSAs, the Propagation of Stereotypes, and the Boomerang Effect2; 6 "Didn't [She] Almost Have It All?": Being Whitney Houston/Performing Addiction/Imagining America1; Conclusion: On Being Wasted in America-Redux; Bibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Alcoholism -- United States -- History
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Drug addiction -- United States -- History
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Alcoholism
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Drug addiction
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317000211 |
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1317000218 |
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