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1 online resource (311 pages) |
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Communication and Social Order |
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Communication and social order.
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Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; PART I. INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURES; 1 READING THE ALCOHOLISM FILM; Interpretive Framework; Film, Everyday Life, and the Cultural Study of Alcoholism; Defining the Genre; In Conclusion: Anhedonia and the Myth of Wine and Roses; Notes; 2 THE HAPPY ALCOHOLIC: ELWOOD AND ARTHUR; Alcohol and Comedy; Harvey; Alcoholism Markers; The Critics Read Harvey and Find Alcoholism; Rereading Harvey; Arthur (1981); Alcoholism Markers and Finding Arthur; The Critics Read Arthur and Ignore Alcoholism; Arthur 2 on the Rocks |
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Alcoholism Markers and the CriticsTurning Back on Harvey and Arthur; Notes; PART II. 1932-1962: DEFINING ALCOHOLISM FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC; 3 A STAR IS BORN: IN SEARCH OF THE ALCOHOLIC HERO; The Moral Career of the Hollywood Alcoholic Hero; The Star Is Born Cycle: The Price of Hollywood is Alcoholism; The Critics; In the Beginning There was The Lost Weekend; Alcoholism Markers, Causes, and Consequences; The Critics Read The Lost Weekend; Back to the Film: Undoing the Critics?; Come Fill the Cup (1951); Alcoholism Signifiers; The Critics Read the Film; A Star Is Born (1954); The Critics |
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Reading The Star Is Born CycleBack to the Films: In Search of a Hero; Notes; 4 HEROINE IN DISGUISE: DEFINING THE FEMALE ALCOHOLIC; The Moral Career of the Female Alcoholic; The Feminization of Alcoholism: Can She be a Heroine?; Smash-up: The Story of a Woman; The Markers, Causes, and Consequences of Alcoholism; The Critics; Back to the Film; I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955); Lillian's Alcoholic Career; Enter A.A; The Critics; Back to the Film through the Critics; Creating the Alcoholic Heroine; Notes; 5 CREATING THE ALCOHOLIC FAMILY; Making Alcoholism a Family Problem; Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) |
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Locating AlcoholismThe Critics; Back to the Text; The Country Girl (1954); The Critics Read the Film; Unraveling the Text; Days of Wine and Roses; The Markers, Causes, and Consequences of Alcoholism; The Critics; Back to the Film; Three Alcoholic Families; In Conclusion: Ending the Classic Period; Notes; PART III. 1962-1980: THE LOST ALCOHOLIC?; 6 THE INTERREGNUM 1962-1980: EQUIVOCAL SPIRITS; The Alcoholic in the Interregnum: Phases in Representation; Fat City (1972); The Lady Sings the Blues (1972); A Woman Under the Influence (1974); W.C. Fields and Me (1976); A Star is Born (1976) |
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Reading the InterregnumNotes; PART IV. THE 1980s: ALCOHOLISM THE FAMILY DISEASE; 7 THE DISEASED ALCOHOLIC FAMILY; Tender Mercies (1983); Rereading Tender Mercies; Shattered Spirits (1986); Reading Shattered Spirits; Under the Influence (1986); Significant Alcoholic Moments; Reflections on Under the Influence; Three Pictures of the Alcoholic Family in the 1980s; Notes; 8 THE NEW ALCOHOLIC HEROINE; Only When I Laugh (1981); The Markers of Alcoholism; The Critics Read the Film; Back to the Film; Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982); Alcoholism Markers; The Betty Ford Story (1987) |
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Reading the Film |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351515344 |
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1351515349 |
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