Overview
- Offers sociological insight into heroin use and misuse by an understudied population
- Explores how heroin affects the daily work performance of entertainers as well as their overall career goals
- Includes analyses of films such as The Panic in Needle Park and Trash
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Film
- Drugs
- Andy Warhol
- Pop Culture
- Theatre
- Comedians
- Entertainment Industry
- New York City-based actors
- New York City-based comedians
- actors
- heroin
- self-acknowledged heroin users
- subculture
- drug subculture
- New York-based films
- entertainers
- The Panic in Needle Park
- film analysis
- New York city drug culture
- career trajectory
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heroin, Acting, and Comedy in New York City
Authors: Barry Spunt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59972-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59971-1Published: 22 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93850-6Due: 20 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59972-8Published: 21 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 191
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Popular Culture , American Cinema and TV, Self and Identity