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VIDEO ESSAY: Cocaine du Cinema

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Cocaine’s presence in movies is a tricky object to dissect. Even with an awful, bloody contemporary history under its belt, cocaine seems to be the “cool” drug for modern cinematic heroes and heroines.

By Nelson Carvajal
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June 13, 2012 8:55 AM
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“Critical Film Studies,” the 19th episode of the 2nd season of “Community,” was probably pretty confusing to most fans of the series when it aired in the Spring of 2011.