Skate life : : re-imagining white masculinity / / Emily Chivers Yochim.
"Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation." ---Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University, author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Pop...
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| Superior document: | Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : The University of Michigan Press :, The University of Michigan Library,, [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages ); illustrations; digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Regarding Skate Life
- "The mix of sunshine and rebellion is really intoxicating": American Mythologies, Rebellious Boys, and the Multiple Appeals of Skateboarding's Corresponding Culture, 1950-2006
- "Freedom on four wheels": Individuality, Self-Expression, and Authentic Masculinity in a Skateboarding Community
- "Why is it the things that make you a man tend to be such dumb things to do?": Never-Ending Adolescence and the (De)stabilization of White Masculine Power on MTV
- "It's just what's possible": Imagining Alternative Masculinities and Performing White Male Dominance in Niche Skateboarding Videos
- "You do it together, and everyone just does it in their own way": Corresponding Cultures and (Anti)patriarchal Masculinity
- Method
- Notes
- Bibliography.