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Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness
Michael Starks
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Paperback. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1043.
From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest groups, and this struggle is clearly evident in the history of drug films. Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness is an exhaustive exploration of the history of the depiction of psychoactive drugs in motion pictures from Thomas Edison's Opium Smoker (1894) to Cocaine Cowboys (1978), Included are over 400 silent and 1,000 sound films as well as nearly 500 drug-abuse films, 85 experimental films, and 135 television programs. More than 150 stills, most never before published and many extremely rare, illustrate the text. Arranged chronologically ... Read more
From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest groups, and this struggle is clearly evident in the history of drug films. Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness is an exhaustive exploration of the history of the depiction of psychoactive drugs in motion pictures from Thomas Edison's Opium Smoker (1894) to Cocaine Cowboys (1978), Included are over 400 silent and 1,000 sound films as well as nearly 500 drug-abuse films, 85 experimental films, and 135 television programs. More than 150 stills, most never before published and many extremely rare, illustrate the text. Arranged chronologically ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Ronin Publishing United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Berkeley, CA, United States
ISBN
9781579511890
SKU
V9781579511890
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About Michael Starks
Michael Starks is a medical technologist, inventor, entrepreneur, psychedelic voyager, world traveler, stereoscopic videographer and philosopher. He holds several patents and lives in Henderson, NV.
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