American Youth Cultures / / Neil Campbell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Campbell, Neil,
• MitwirkendeR: Acland, Charles R.,; Campbell, Neil,; Comer, Krista,; Giroux, Henry A.,; Lewis, Jon,; Philo, Simon,; Robinson, Jenny,; Young, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Note to readers --; Introduction: On youth cultural studies --; One. Fresh Contacts: Global Culture and the Concept of Generation --; Two. Children of the Revolution: Fiction Take to the Streets --; Three. Disposable Youth/Disposable Futures: The Crisis of Politics and the Public Life --; Four. 'Splendid Fun' in "Elsewhere': Textual Treats for Contemporary Readers in Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did and Other 'Classic' North American Stories for Girls --; Five. Ideologies of Youth and the Bildungsromane of S. E. Hinton --; Six. 'Something you Can't Unbear': Masculinity, Youth and History in Larry Watson's Montana 1948 --; Seven. 'Teensomething': American Youth Programming in the 1990s --; Eight. The Body's in the Trunk: (Re-) Presenting Generation X --; Nine. 'Be Childish, Be Irresponsible, Be Disrespectful, Be Everything this Society Hate's: Punk, Youth and Protest --; Ten. Wanting to be Lisa: Generational Rifts, Girl Power and the Globalization of Surf Culture --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474465595; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474465595
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Neil Campbell.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619337);Surfing, punk rock, Dawson's Creek, teen movies, MTV and S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders are among the many popular cultural landmarks examined in American Youth Cultures. It considers themes such as race, class, gender, power, sexuality and authority and presents innovative and challenging analyses of texts from the post-war period. Key questions are raised about the significance of youth within American culture.Contributing to the necessary and important debate over the meanings of youth representation within American culture, the ideological nature of youth and its centrality to a complex reading of popular culture are emphasised. In particular the issues of gender, race and sexuality are considered as central to the construction of youth identity and to other significant relationships between youth and authority. The contradictions in youth representation are asserted, denying any easy definitions that might serve to compound stereotypes or sustain vested interests.The authors show how the cultural politics of youth are no longer only about being young but rather associated with both personal and public values, aspirations and ideologies that extend way beyond any simple consideration of the self.Key FeaturesThe only available book on the subjectYouth is shown to be central to contemporary American cultureContributors bring a range of approaches to bear on representations of youth in American culture"