American Youth Cultures

Neil Campbell

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2004

American Youth Cultures

Neil Campbell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465595

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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.

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The only available book on the subject
Youth is shown to be central to contemporary American culture
Contributors bring a range of approaches to bear on representations of youth in American culture

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Note to readers Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction: On youth cultural studies Neil Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
One. Fresh Contacts: Global Culture and the Concept of Generation Charles R. Acland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Two. Children of the Revolution: Fiction Take to the Streets Elizabeth Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Three. Disposable Youth/Disposable Futures: The Crisis of Politics and the Public Life Henry A. Giroux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
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 Jenny Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Five. Ideologies of Youth and the Bildungsromane of S. E. Hinton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Six. 'Something you Can't Unbear': Masculinity, Youth and History in Larry Watson's Montana 1948 Neil Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Seven. 'Teensomething': American Youth Programming in the 1990s Simon Philo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Eight. The Body's in the Trunk: (Re-) Presenting Generation X Jon Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Nine. 'Be Childish, Be Irresponsible, Be Disrespectful, Be Everything this Society Hate's: Punk, Youth and Protest Simon Philo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Ten. Wanting to be Lisa: Generational Rifts, Girl Power and the Globalization of Surf Culture Krista Comer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: American Studies

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Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9781474465595