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American youth cultures /

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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Campbell, Neil, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On youth cultural studies / Neil Campbell
  • Fresh contacts : global culture and the concept of generation / Charles R. Acland
  • Children of the revolution : fiction takes to the streets / Elizabeth Young
  • Disposable youth/disposable futures : the crisis of politics and public life / Henry A. Giroux
  • '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
  • Ideologies of youth and the Bildungsromane of S.E. Hinton / David Holloway
  • 'Something you can't unhear' : youth, history and the West in Larry Watson's Montana 1948 / Neil Campbell
  • 'Teensomething' : American youth programming in the 1990s / Simon Philo
  • The body's in the trunk : (re- ) presenting Generation X / Jon Lewis
  • 'Be childish, be irresponsible, be disrespectful, be everything this society hates' : punk, youth and protest / Simon Philo
  • Wanting to be Lisa : generation rifts, girl power and the globalization of surf culture / Krista Comer.