Wasted: Performing Addiction in America (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2015
Authors:	Heath A. Diehl
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-59752-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN:	0-367-59752-7
Barcode:	9780367597528

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