Hollywood Shot by Shot Alcoholism in American Cinema

To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie industry itself been conceptually shaped by a broad, external societal discourse? Norman Denin brings to his lifelong study of alcoholism a searching interest in how cultural texts signify and lend themselves to interpretation within a social nexus. [A] genuinely interdisciplinary work of the first order.Robert L. Carringer, author, The Making of Citien KaneDenzin, Norman K. is the author of 'Hollywood Shot by Shot Alcoholism in American Cinema' with ISBN 9780202303451 and ISBN 0202303454.