Addicted: An Illustrated Guide to Drug Cinema Book

From Renton's cold turkey hell in Trainspotting to the narcotic excesses of Duke and Gonzo in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and way back to Thomas Edison's 1894 Opium Joint, editor Jack Stevenson presents an all-encompassing look at one of the most confrontational and experimental corners of film-making: Drug Cinema.

An edited collection of highly charged essays, Addicted presents a general overview of the interchange between drugs and cinema before touching on:

* Specific genres such as Blaxploitation, SF/Horror and the Underground

* Key films including Performance, Scarface, Kids and Bringing Out the Dead

* Foreign language films, presenting highlights from a body of work that remains largely overlooked.

Visually loaded with dozens of eye-opening images, Addicted is an indispensable guide to an area of cinema which has traditionally enable film-makers to realise their most lurid, surrealistic, or complex visions.

Jack Stevenson is an American living in Denmark. He has organised films shows and filmmaker tours all over America and Europe, is a film print collector and runs his own film distribution company.