Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood and the Movies - Softcover
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Harry Shapiro has worked in the drugs field for over twenty years and is the author of a number of acclaimed rock biographies and music books. The BBC named Waiting for the Man, his history of drugs and music, 'one of the twenty best music books of all time' while MOJO dubbed Electric Gypsy, his best-selling biography of Jimi Hendrix as the one against which 'all other rock biographies will be judged'.
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?The subtitle says it all ? Drugs, Hollywood and the Movies ? if you?re interested in any one of them you will be well rewarded here? Guardian Guide ?Shooting Stars offers well-chosen and often jaw-dropping examples of the double-think surrounding the politics of escapism. It?s an eminently sensible read that should remain a benchmark volume until the next designer drug threatens the morals of the nation?s youth? Independent on Sunday ?The prose is sprightly, the gossip is hair-raising, and the rhythm of his argument hypnotic? The Times ?An extremely entertaining and informative history of the relationship between cinema and drugs?a thoroughly readable and entertaining snapshot? Popmatters.com ?A rather handy reference book for anyone with a nose for the seedier side of cinema? Hot Press ?A book you?ll snort up and want more? Jack ?The author expounds some surprisingly interesting ideas on early Hollywood?s opium fixation and the truly suicidal nature of the 80s coke epidemic. Fascinating stuff? The List ?A well researched and entertaining look at the relationship between two very different factories? Flux ?This fantastic book covers every major and most minor drugs films since the opium movies of the silent days? London Student
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1852426519
- ISBN 13 9781852426514
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 'From Reefer Madness to The Man With the Golden Arm, Easy Rider to Drugstore Cowboy, Traffic to Trainspotting, Harry Shapiro charts the ways in which cinema has both tried to shape the public mood and has been forced to respond to the realities of widespread drug use.' Bibliography, Index. Published @ $19.95. Seller Inventory # 015621
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