The American Pipe Dream

Released on by Max Shulman
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  • The American Pipe Dream Book Detail

  • Author : Max Shulman
  • Release Date : 2022-06-15
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Genre : Performing Arts
  • Pages : 267
  • ISBN 13 : 1609388461
  • File Size : 94,94 MB
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The American Pipe Dream by Max Shulman PDF Summary

Book Description: The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the U.S. public learned about addiction and drug use, Shulman argues that performance was essential in creating the addict in America’s cultural imagination. He demonstrates how modern-day perceptions of addiction and of the addict emerge from a complex history of accumulation and revision that spanned the Progressive Era, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. Chapters look at how theatre, film, and popular culture linked the Chinese immigrant and opium smoking; the early attacks on doctors for their part in the creation of addicts; the legislation of addiction as a criminal condition; the comic portrayals of addiction; the intersection of Black, jazz, and drug cultures through cabaret performance; and the linkage between narcotic inebriation and artistic inspiration. The American Pipe Dream creates active connections between these case studies, demonstrating how this history has influenced our contemporary understanding, treatment, and legislation of drug use and addiction.

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