Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood and the Movies
“An eminently sensible read that should remain a benchmark volume.”—Independent on Sunday\ From 1920s marijuana mayhem through the heroin chic films of the ’90s, Shooting Stars investigates the drug myths propagated in movies. Shapiro asks not only whether films have glamorized drugs, but shows the clear but complex links between censorship, public morals and the Hollywood dream machine, from Reefer Madness through The Man with the Golden Arm and on to films such as Panic in Needle Park. An...
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The hundred year-old relationship between drugs and the movies
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Out of the blue and into the black11Marks of a beast: the making of the drug fiend82Children of the night: early drug cinema233Scandals in Bohemia374Aaaaand cut!: the censors strike545The Forty thieves: drugs and the exploitation movie696Junkie goes to Hollywood: heroin in the 1950s947Altered states I: stairways to heaven1138Altered states II: highways to hell1339The pale riders: heroin films from Trash to Requiem for a Dream15310Snowblind friends: cocaine returns to Hollywood18311Honey, I smoked the kids: crack and black film20612Clear and present dangers: the war on drugs22313E + SF = rave new world24314Pulp frictions25715We failed to paint it black269AppUS classroom 1960s scare movies282References and notes286Bibliography298Filmography306Index308
