Abstract
Preface: on being wasted in America. Part I Representing Wasted Metaphors: Writing Belushi/performing America: addiction, national identity, and the cultural mythos of 'waste' in Wired. Part II Staging Wasted Histories: Welcome (again) to the circus: resurrecting the freak show and the inebriate asylum in A&E's Intervention Re-visiting literary realism: adaptation, ideology, and the metaphor of waste in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City and Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero 'My name is Jim, and I'm an alcoholic': peddling the wasteful propaganda of 12-step treatment in Peter Cohn's Drunks. Part III Performing Wasted Lives: 'Real people with real stories': anti-drug PSAs, the propagation of stereotypes, and the boomerang effect 'Didn't [she] almost have it all?': being Whitney Houston/performing addiction/imagining America Conclusion: on being wasted in America - redux
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