Acid Hype : American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience /

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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 outlets across the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siff, Stephen, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
LSD (Drug)
Hallucinogenic drugs.
Drugs and mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
LSD (Drogue) > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
LSD (Drogue) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Hallucinogenes > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Hallucinogenes > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Drogues et medias.
LSD (Drug) > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
LSD (Drug) > United States > History > 20th century.
Hallucinogenic drugs > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Hallucinogenic drugs > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Midcentury Media's Trip with LSD
  • Early Restrictions on Drug Speech, 1900-1956
  • Introducing LSD, 1953-1956
  • Creating a Psychedelic Past, 1954-1960
  • Research at the Intersection of Media and Medicine, 1957-1962
  • Luce, Leary, and LSD, 1963-1965
  • Moral Panic and Media Hype, 1966-1968
  • Postscript: Psychedelic Media.

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