1st Edition

Hollywood Shot by Shot Alcoholism in American Cinema

By Norman K. Denzin Copyright 1991
310 Pages
by Routledge

309 Pages
by Routledge

309 Pages
by Routledge

To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie industry itself been conceptually shaped by a broad, external societal discourse? Norman Denzin brings to his life-long study of alcoholism a searching interest in how cultural texts signify and lend... Read more
Acknowledgments, Preface, PART I. INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURES, PART II. 1932-1962: DEFINING ALCOHOLISM FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, PART III. 1962-1980: THE LOST ALCOHOLIC?, PART IV. THE 1980s: ALCOHOLISM THE FAMILY DISEASE, SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY, REFERENCES, INDEX

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Norman K. Denzin