Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities
By examining the cultural spaces occupied by youth—spaces represented in texts produced for youth, about youth, and in some cases by youth—contributors to this volume present challenging ways of applying critical ideas and theoretical frameworks to the crucial issues that surround youth and the cultures they inhabit as evidenced in their literature, magazines, computer games, films, television programs, popular music, and fashion. Many of the writers in this unique new collection write from...
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Offers lively, challenging, and often provocative analyses of popular literature, films, television programs, and music videos produced for, about, and by young people.
Introduction: Tales of Youth in Postmodern Culture1Nothing Sells like Teen Spirit: The Commodification of Youth Culture12Girls Make Movies173Stronger Than Yesterday? Romance and Antiromance in Popular Music354Working Girls or Drop-Dead Gorgeous? Young Girls in Fashion and News475"As Wholesome As ...": American Pie As a New Millennium Sex Manual696"The Seven Things All Men Love in Bed": Young Women's Magazines and the Governance of Femininity817Living in a Young Country? Youthful Creativity and Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom938The Unheimlich Maneuver: Uncanny Domesticity in the Urban Waif Tale1099"I'll Never Be the Same After That Summer": From Abjection to Subjective Agency in Teen Films12310Hitting Below the Belt: Action Femininity and Representations of Female Subjectivity13911Game On: Adolescent Texts to Read and Play15512The Orangutan in the Library: The Comfort of Strangeness in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels16913Coprophilia for Kids: The Culture of Grossness183Index197About the Contributors201
