Los Angeles Under the Influence
Author | : Doublewide Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780971198616 |
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Author | : Doublewide Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780971198616 |
Author | : National Research Council/Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1994-02-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309048850 |
Drug use in the workplace, its effect on performance and safety, and the role of workplace drug testing has received much attention in the popular press. But what do we actually know about this troubling issue? With an extensive and readable overview of the literature, the committee presents what we do know by examining the major issues: The extent and severity of drug use on and off the job. The strengths and weaknesses of methods for detecting drug use through standard drug tests. The effect of drug use on behavior, including the results of both laboratory and field studies that have examined work-related behavior and worker productivity. The effectiveness of interventions to deal with drug use, such as employee assistance programs, health promotion programs, and treatment programs for substance abuse. This volume will be of practical interest to human resource and employee assistance program managers, policymakers, and investigators.
Author | : Kate Braverman |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609802837 |
Written nearly a decade after Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Kate Braverman's second novel and arguably her chef d’oeuvre, explores the intertwined lives of three women who await absolution and revelation in the bougainvillea- and violence-filled "barrio" of Los Angeles. Frances Ramos is a voluptuous prostitute who flaunts her wealth and is held in high esteem by the local street gangs. Gloria Hernandez is a dutiful young wife and mother—until her husband’s act of betrayal sparks her growing estrangement and fury. Marta Ortega, a prophetic old woman connected viscerally with the forces/elements of nature, nods as past and present mingle and quietly charts the cross-pollenization of her turbulent neighborhood, and of human destiny.
Author | : Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1452971390 |
A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances Movies under the Influence charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece examines how the parallel trajectories of these two enduring aspects of American culture, linked by their ability to influence individual and collective consciousness, resulted in them being treated and regulated in similar ways. Rather than looking at representations of drug use within film, she regards cinema and intoxicants as kindred experiences of immersion that have been subject to corresponding forces of ideology and power. Exploring the effects of intoxicants such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, and psychedelics on film spectatorship, Szczepaniak-Gillece demonstrates how American movie theaters sought to cultivate a dual identity, presenting themselves as both a place of wholesome entertainment and a shadowy zone of illicit behavior. Movies under the Influence highlights the various legislative, legal, and corporate powers that held sway over the darkened anonymity of theaters, locating the convergence of moviegoing and drug use as a site of mediation and social control in America. As much as substances and cinema are points where power intervenes, they are also settings of potential transcendence, and Movies under the Influence maintains this paradox as a necessary component of American film history. Recontextualizing a wide range of films, from Hollywood to the avant-garde, this book examines the implicit relationship intoxicants suggest between mass media, spectatorship, and governmental regulation and provides a new angle from which to understand cinema’s lasting role in evolving American culture.
Author | : United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Drinking and traffic accidents |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard P. Compton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Monica Ganas |
Publisher | : Brazos Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1587431793 |
An insider to California culture wittily examines the downside to our national obsessions with celebrity and appearance and shows how Christians can respond.
Author | : Kate Braverman |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2002-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781583224717 |
Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors—as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breathless, fierce, visceral flight—like a drug that leaves one’s perceptions forever altered.