“Just say no”
Anti-melodrama and deconstruction of neoconservative morals in Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant
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Anti-melodrama, Outsiders, Reagan Era, Gus Van SantAbstract
We analyze how the images of deviant individuals are constructed in the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy, by American filmmaker Gus Van Sant, thinking about highlighting an anti-melodramatic cinematic discourse constructed in counterpoint to a classic melodramatic structure. We adopted a film analysis that sought to highlight the evidence of a dissident discourse that put into perspective the impossibilities of melodramatic representations in dialoguing with the policies adopted on drug consumption in the context of the Reagan Era (1981-1989) in the United States.
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