Addiction to Melodrama

作者:Stephens Robert P*
来源:Substance Use & Misuse, 2011, 46(7): 859-871.
DOI:10.3109/10826084.2011.570616

摘要

Addiction films have been shaped by the internal demands of a commercial medium. Specifically, melodrama, as a genre, has defined the limits of the visual representation of addiction. Similarly, the process of intermedialization has tended to induce a metamorphosis that shapes disparate narratives with diverse goals into a generic filmic form and substantially alters the meanings of the texts. Ultimately, visual representations shape public perceptions of addiction in meaningful ways, privileging a moralistic understanding of drug addiction that makes a complex issue visually uncomplicated by reinforcing "common sense" ideas of moral failure and redemption.

  • 出版日期2011
  • 单位美国弗吉尼亚理工大学(Virginia Tech)