Addicted: The Myth and Menace of Drugs in Film: No. 16 (Creation Cinema Collection) - Softcover

Stevenson, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840680237 ISBN 13: 9781840680232

Publisher: Creation Books, 2000

Synopsis

From Renton's cold turkey hell in Trainspotting to the narcotic excesses of Duke and Gonzo in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and way back to Thomas Edison's 1894 Opium Joint, editor Jack Stevenson presents an all-encompassing look at one of the most confrontational and experimental corners of film-making: Drug Cinema. An edited collection of highly charged essays, Addicted presents a general overview of the interchange between drugs and cinema before touching on: * Specific genres such as Blaxploitation, SF/Horror and the Underground * Key films including Performance, Scarface, Kids and Bringing Out the Dead * Foreign language films, presenting highlights from a body of work that remains largely overlooked. Visually loaded with dozens of eye-opening images, Addicted is an indispensable guide to an area of cinema which has traditionally enable film-makers to realise their most lurid, surrealistic, or complex visions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Creation Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1840680237
• ISBN 13: 9781840680232
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256