Fashioning Italian youth : young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75 / Cecilia Brioni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brioni, Cecilia, author.

Series:

Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)

Studies in popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Italy--Social conditions--20th century.

Youth.

Fashion--Italy--History--20th century.

Fashion.

Popular culture--Italy--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Youth--Social conditions.

Italy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Fashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 1958-75. By looking at visual and written representations of transnational youth trends - like urlatori, amici, beats and hippies - in Italian teen magazines, Musicarelli films and youth-oriented television programmes, it investigates changes in the social construction of Italian young people's political, generational, national, ethnic and gender identities. The monograph connects the emergence of youth-oriented transnational trends to the national and global history of young people, and explores the dynamics that contributed to the construction of a specifically Italian youth culture in this period. -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.

ISBN:

9781526162007

1526162008

OCLC:

1341330057