Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

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...