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The Abercrombie age : millennial aspiration and the promise of consumer culture / Myles Ethan Lascity.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lascity, Myles Ethan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generation Y.
- Mass media and culture--United States.
- Mass media and culture.
- Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Success in popular culture--United States.
- Success in popular culture.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
- Contents:
- Abercrombie, aspiration, and consumer culture
- Back to school '97: understanding the Abercrombie teen
- Spring break '99: 'Cruel Intentions' and the millennium high school film
- Summer '99: "Summer Girls" and intertextual teen TV
- Spring break '00: 'The Skulls' and the millennial college experience
- Spring break '01: revisiting contemporaneous critiques
- Spring break '04: 'Mean Girls' and post-9/11 high school
- Summer '06: 'The Devil Wears Prada' and expectations of millennial adulthood
- Christmas '08: Goodbye to 'TRL', and the legacy of the Abercrombie teen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781469680941 (electronic bk.)
- 1469680947 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032512742
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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