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Wasted: Performing Addiction in America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Wasted: Performing Addiction in America (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
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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.
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