Cocaine Fiends And Reefer Madness

From The Very Beginning, Filmmakers Have Struggled To Themselves From Censorship And Manipulation By Special-interest Groups, And This Struggle Is Clearly Evident In The History Of Drug Films. Cocaine Fiends And Reefer Madness Is An Exhaustive Exploration Of The History Of The Depiction Of Psychoactive Drugs In Motion Pictures From Thomas Edisons Opium Smoker (1894) To Cocaine Cowboys (1978), Included Are Over 400 Silent And 1,000 Sound Films As Well As Nearly 500 Drug-abuse Films, 85 Experimental Films, And 135 Television Programs. More Than 150 Stills, Most Never Before Published And Many Extremely Rare, Illustrate The Text.