Acid Hype

American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience

AvStephen Siff

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Engelska, 2015

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Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while lesser outlets piggybacked on their coverage with stories by turns sensationalized and glowing.

Acid Hype offers the untold tale of LSD''s wild journey from Brylcreem and Ivory soap to incense and peppermints. As Stephen Siff shows, the early attention lavished on the drug by the news media glorified its use in treatments for mental illness but also its status as a mystical--yet legitimate--gateway to exploring the unconscious mind. Siff''s history takes readers to the center of how popular media hyped psychedelic drugs in a constantly shifting legal and social environment, producing an intricate relationship between drugs and media experience that came to define contemporary pop culture. It also traces how the breathless coverage of LSD gave way to a textbook moral panic, transforming yesterday''s refined seeker of truths into an acid casualty splayed out beyond the fringe of polite society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252097232
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

Utforska kategorier

Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

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Stephen Siff is assistant professor of journalism at Miami University, Ohio.

Recensioner i media

"Siff provides two parallel narratives about LSD. The first focuses on the history of LSD, its popularity beginning in the mid-1950s and its fall from grace a decade later; the second concerns the way in which media attention to LSD changed journalistic methods. Recommended."--Choice"The rich content of consumer magazines, especially those published before television became culturally dominant, remains largely unexamined by media historians. Acid Hype illustrates how rewarding study of mass-circulation magazines can be. Who could anticipate Stephen Siff would find that such bedrock Republicans as Henry and Clare Boothe Luce personally embraced hallucinogenic drugs and encouraged their use in the pages of Life and Time?"--Joseph Bernt, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Ohio University"Stephen Siff. . . is never less than shrewd and readable in his assessment of how various news media differed in method and attitude when covering the psychedelic beat."--Inside Higher Ed

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Midcentury Media's Trip with LSD 11. Early Restrictions on Drug Speech, 1900-1956 172. Introducing LSD, 1953-1956 423. Creating a Psychedelic Past, 1954-1960 684. Research at the Intersection of Media and Medicine, 1957-1962 895. Luce, Leary, and LSD, 1963-1965 1156. Moral Panic and Media Hype, 1966-1968 145Postscript: Psychedelic Media 181 Notes 191Index 227