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Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll : the evolution of an American youth culture / Douglas Brode.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brode, Douglas, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Popular culture & everyday life ; v. 30.
- Popular culture, everyday life, 1529-2428 ; vol. 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Sexual behavior--United States--History.
- Youth.
- Teenagers--Sexual behavior--United States--History.
- Teenagers.
- Youth--Drug use--United States--History.
- Teenagers--Drug use--United States--History.
- Youth--United States--Social conditions.
- Teenagers--Drug use.
- History.
- Youth--Drug use.
- Teenagers--Sexual behavior.
- Youth--Sexual behavior.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Teenagers--United States--Social conditions.
- Teenagers--Social conditions.
- Youth--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 304 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2015]
- Summary:
- Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n' Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering the relationship between young people and adults. As the entertainment industries came to realize that a youth market existed, providers of music and movies began to create products specifically for them. While Big Beat music and exploitation films may have initially been targeted for a marginalized audience, during the following decade and a half, such offerings gradually become mainstream, even as the first generation of American teenagers came of age. As a result the so-called youth culture overtook and consumed the primary American culture, as records and films once considered revolutionary transformed into a nostalgia movement, and much of what had been thought of as radical came to be perceived as conservative in a drastically altered social context. In this book Douglas Brode offers the first full analysis of how an American youth culture evolved. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Toward a New American Cinema: Three Films That Altered Everything 1
- Chapter 2 Shake, Rattle and Rock: The Big Beat on the Big Screen 21
- Chapter 3 Bad Boys, Dangerous Dolls: The juvenile Delinquent on Film 41
- Chapter 4 I Lost It at the Drive In Movie: An All-American Outdoor Grindhouse 61
- Chapter 5 The Tramp Is a Lady: Mamie Van Doren and the Meaning of Life 81
- Chapter 6 Surf/Sex/Sand/Spies: The Battles of Bikini Beach 97
- Chapter 7 The Last American Virgin: Sandra Dee and the Sexual Revolution 115
- Chapter 8 Formulating a Feminine Mystique: The Emergent American Woman on Film 137
- Chapter 9 "The British are Coming!": When Bob Dylan Met the Beatles 157
- Chapter 10 Go Ask Alice: The Drug Culture on Film 175
- Chapter 11 Revolution for the Sell of It: The Beat Generation and the Hippie Movement 193
- Chapter 12 Lonesome Highways: Of Car Culture and Motorcycle Mania 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1433128861
- 9781433128875
- 143312887X
- 9781433128868
- OCLC:
- 896863307
- Publisher Number:
- 99963186200
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