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Hooked

Routledge Advances in Criminology

1. Family Life and Youth Offending

Home Is Where the Hurt Is

Raymond Arthur

2. Chinas Death Penalty

History, Law, and Contemporary Practices

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3. The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour

Amoral Panics

Stuart Waiton

4. Hooked

Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the United States

Susan C. Boyd

Hooked

Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the United States

Susan C. Boyd

New York London

First published 2008
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Simultaneously published in the UK
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Boyd, Susan C.
Hooked : drug war films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. / by Susan C. Boyd.
p. cm.(Routledge advances in criminology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-95706-9
1. Drugs in motion pictures. 2. Motion picturesGreat Britain. 3. Motion picturesCanada. 4. Motion picturesUnited States. I. Title.
PN1995.9.D78B69 2008
791.43'6556dc22 2007035124

ISBN13: 978-1-135-90924-6 ePub ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-95706-0 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-93073-8 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-95706-9 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-93073-1 (ebk)

For Diana

Contents

List of Film Stills

CHAPTER 2

Broken Blossoms

Narcotic

The Pace that Kills

Assassin of Youth

The Man with the Golden Arm

CHAPTER 3

The Trip

Easy Rider

The Panic in Needle Park

CHAPTER 4

Trainspotting

Gridlockd

CHAPTER 5

Cleopatra Jones

The French Connection

New Jack City

Maria Full of Grace

CHAPTER 6

Reefer Madness

Valley of the Dolls

Postcards from the Edge

Blow

Marihuana, the Weed with Roots in Hell

CHAPTER 7

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Layer Cake

Drugstore Cowboy

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Benjamin Holtzman and Gerhard Boomgaarden of Routledge for their interest and support in the publication of this book and Carey Nershi for her composition of the manuscript and James Barbee for his copyediting. I am indebted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; without their support, this project might not have been completed. I am also indebted to my colleagues at Studies in Policy in Practice, University of Victoria.

I am grateful to Craig Reinarman and Dennis Sullivan for agreeing to review my book proposal and the first chapter and providing feedback to me. I would also like to thank Karlene Faith for reading the first draft. Her critical insight and helpful comments contributed to this book. Similarly, Dara Culhane and Sunera Thobani were essential supports in writing this book. They painstakingly read over my draft proposal and introduction and provided support over the three years that I was researching and writing the book. Their friendship, scholarship, and activism have helped to shape my own work, although any errors or mistakes are completely of my own making.

I would also like to thank Nedjo Rogers for his editorial help on my original research proposal for this research and Starla Anderson for her insightful comments on my book proposal. I am grateful to Mark Stoddart, who worked as a research assistant on the project for almost two years. His contributions were invaluable and his enthusiasm for the project helped carry it forward. Research assistants Catherine Van Mossell and Connie Carter also contributed to this book, and their input was significant. I am indebted to Connie for her thoughtful editorial comments and her help with formatting and securing copyright permission for the photos in the book, a task that seemed insurmountable at times. I would also like to thank Barbara Hodgson and Mark Starks for their insights about copyrights and film stills. A special thanks to Gloria Watkins for helping me with the title of the book.

Finally, I would like to thank Val Zwicker, Marjorie van Orden, Cheryl Anderson, Carolyn Crichton, Morgan LeBlond, Don Forsyth, Nuszia Mordasiewicz, Gazella Mordasiewicz, Dawne Graham, Jeannie Kamins, Marilyn Green, and my family for all of their support. My son Iain suffered through three years of film viewing and offered his technical help more times than I can say. My daughter Jade gratefully read my first draft and lent her support to the project. Her own research and writing on film introduced me to a new field of research and inquiry.

Some of the material in this book was previously published in two journal articles. I am grateful for their permission to reprint the material in this book:

Contemporary Justice Review, no. 10 (3) (September 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy, no. 13 (2002)

Introduction

THE STORIES WE TELL

Since the advent of film, stories about drugs, drug users, addiction, traffickers, and criminal justice have entertained audiences. Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and their histories intersect in significant ways. Early silent films, like

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