Drugs and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781843922100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str.

Paul Manning

Opis

Focuses upon drug consumption as popular culture. In drawing upon criminological, sociological and cultural studies approaches, this book makes an important contribution to the field positioned at the intersection of these disciplines. It aims to provide a collection of chapters and readings that is relevant to undergraduates and postgraduates.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Context, theory and history  Introduction  1. An introduction to theoretical approaches and research traditions  2. Mental health and moral panic: drug discourses in history  Part 2: Considering the 'normalisation thesis' Introduction: an overview of the normalisation debate  3. Definitely, maybe, not? The normalization of recreational drug use amongst young people  4. The 'normalisation' of 'sensible' recreational drug use: further evidence from the North West Longitudinal Study  Part 3: Representing drugs in and as popular culture  Introduction  5. Drugs and popular music in the modern age  6. Drugs, the family and recent American cinema  7. Under a cloud: morality,ambivalence and uncertainty in news discourse of cannabis law reform in Great Britain  8. The symbolic framing of drug use in the news: ecstasy and volatile substance abuse in newspapers  9. Drug dealers as folk heroes? Drugs and television situation comedy  10. 'Junk, skunk and Northern Lights - representing drugs in children's literature  Part 4: Identities, cultural practices and drugs  Introduction  11. Echoes of drug culture in urban music  12. Drugs and identity: being a junkie mum  13. Women, drugs and popular culture: is there a need for a feminist embodiment perspective?  14. The drugs of labour: the contested nature of popular drug use in childbirth  Part 5: Drugs, normalisation and popular culture: implications and policy  Introduction  15. Systemic 'normalisation'? - mapping and interpreting policy responses to illicit drug us

O autorze

Paul Manning is the Head of the School of Media and Film at Winchester University, UK. His research interests include news and political communication, news sources, drugs and popular culture, and cultural criminology.