Wasted : performing addiction in America /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Publishing,
[2015]
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| Series: | Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: on being wasted in America
- Representing wasted metaphors
- Writing belushi/performing America : addiction, national identity, and the cultural mythos of "waste" in wired
- Staging wasted histories
- Welcome (again) to the circus : resurrecting the freak show and the inebriate asylum in A&E's intervention
- 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
- "My name is Jim, and I'm an alcoholic" : peddling the wasteful propaganda of twelve-step treatment in Peter Cohn's drunks
- Performing wasted lives
- Real people with real stories : anti-drug psas, the propagation of stereotypes, and the boomerang effect
- "Didn't she almost have it all?" : being Whitney house/performing addiction/imagining America
- Conclusion: on being wasted in America.