The book offers an invaluable introduction to the topic of the representation of alcoholin literature and film from antiquity to the present.The first part deals with literature and includes a genealogy of the relationship betweenalcohol and fiction. The authors set two Victorian ghost stories and a Nigerian phantasmagoricalfable as examples of how alcohol dilutes the boundaries between theliving and the dead. The part devoted to film approaches the matter of alcohol bothas a personal vice and a vehicle of social interaction. The authors explore American,Irish, and Polish films, paying particular attention to the masculinities they portray.The whole volume can serve as a textbook on these issues. The books and films analyzedwill constitute an ample reading and viewing list for a university course.