Substance Use in Popular Movies and Music Office of National Drug Control Policy and Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration April 1999
Substance Use in Popular Movies and Music Office of National Drug Control Policy and Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Table of Contents Title Page Executive Summary Illicit Drugs Tobacco and Alcohol Comparing Movies and Music in Equivalent Units of Time Rationale and Background Substance Use Among America’s Youth Adolescents, Movies, and Music Previous Studies on Substance Use in Media Theoretical Context Research Methods Samples Movies Music Coding Procedures Movie Content Scenes Major Characters Time Intervals Lyric Content Results General Findings Comparing Movies and Songs Findings Specific to Movies and Songs Movie Findings Among Adults Among Youth Music Findings Appendix A: Adolescents, Movies, and Music Movies and Home Video Music Appendix B: Review of Media Content Analyses: 1980-1998 Annotated Bibliography Appendix C: Movie Sample Appendix D: Music Sample Composition Heavy Metal Sample Genre Crossovers with Hot-100 Acknowledgments Data Sets for Study