Wasted: Performing Addiction in America

Heath A. Diehl (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-4237-6 (ISBN)

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Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a ’metaphor of waste’, from the manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of inebriation or his or her systematic exclusion from various aspects of American culture. With analyses of scientific and popular cultural texts such as novels and films, scholarly or medical models of addiction, reality television, TV drama, public health and anti-addiction campaigns, and the lives of celebrities who struggled with addiction, this book recovers the sense of materiality in which the experience of substance abuse is anchored, revealing addiction to be a set of socio-cultural practices, historically-contingent events and behaviours. Exploring the ways in which addiction as an identity construct, as a social problem, and as a lived experience is always and already circumscribed by the metaphor of waste, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America advances the idea that addiction constitutes a site of social control beyond the individual, through which American citizenship is regulated and the ’nation’ itself is imagined, demarcated, and contained. As such, it will appeal to scholars of popular culture, cultural and media studies, performance studies, sociology and American culture.

Heath A. Diehl is a lecturer in the Department of English and the Honors College at Bowling Green State University, USA and author of Stages of Sexuality: Performance, Gay Male Identity, and Public Space(s).

Preface: on being wasted in America. Part I Representing Wasted Metaphors: Writing Belushi/performing America: addiction, national identity, and the cultural mythos of ‘waste’ in Wired. Part II Staging Wasted Histories: Welcome (again) to the circus: resurrecting the freak show and the inebriate asylum in A&E’s Intervention; Re-visiting literary realism: adaptation, ideology, and the metaphor of waste in Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City and Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero; ‘My name is Jim, and I’m an alcoholic’: peddling the wasteful propaganda of 12-step treatment in Peter Cohn’s Drunks. Part III Performing Wasted Lives: ‘Real people with real stories’: anti-drug PSAs, the propagation of stereotypes, and the boomerang effect; ‘Didn’t [she] almost have it all?’: being Whitney Houston/performing addiction/imagining America; Conclusion: on being wasted in America - redux

Erscheinungsdatum	11.02.2016
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4724-4237-7 / 1472442377
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-4237-6 / 9781472442376
Zustand	Neuware