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Wasted :

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1472442385

9781317000211

9781472442383

1472442377

1472442393

9781472442376

Wasted :

[Book]

performing addiction in America /

Heath A. Diehl.

Burlington :

Ashgate Publishing Ltd,

[2015]

1 online resource

The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Wasted.

1472442377

Alcoholism-- United States-- History.

Drug addiction-- United States-- History.

Alcoholism.

Drug addiction.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.

United States.

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POL-- 019000

POL-- 027000

Diehl, Heath A.

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