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" Wasted : "
Heath A. Diehl.
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BL
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Record Number
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850382
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Main Entry
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Diehl, Heath A.
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Title & Author
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Wasted : : performing addiction in America /\ Heath A. Diehl.
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Publication Statement
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Farnham, Surrey ;Burlington :: Ashgate Publishing Ltd,, [2015]
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Series Statement
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The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
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1 online resource
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ISBN
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1317000218
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: 1472442385
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: 9781317000211
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: 9781472442383
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1472442377
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1472442393
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9781472442376
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments -- Preface: on being wasted in America -- Representing wasted metaphors -- Writing belushi/performing America : addiction, national identity, and the cultural mythos of "waste" in wired -- 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 twelve-step treatment in Peter Cohn's drunks -- 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 house/performing addiction/imagining America -- Conclusion: on being wasted in America.
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Alcoholism-- United States-- History.
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Drug addiction-- United States-- History.
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Alcoholism.
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Drug addiction.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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United States.
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Dewey Classification
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362.29088/7910973
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LC Classification
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HV5292.D54 2016
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