American youth cultures / edited by Neil Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Neil, Author.

Contributor:

Campbell, Neil, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--United States.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 269 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619337);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 analyses of texts from the post-war period. Key questions are raised about the significance of youth within American culture.Contributing to the necessary and important debate over the meanings of youth representation within American culture, the ideological nature of youth and its centrality to a complex reading of popular culture are emphasised. In particular the issues of gender, race and sexuality are considered as central to the construction of youth identity and to other significant relationships between youth and authority. The contradictions in youth representation are asserted, denying any easy definitions that might serve to compound stereotypes or sustain vested interests.The authors show how the cultural politics of youth are no longer only about being young but rather associated with both personal and public values, aspirations and ideologies that extend way beyond any simple consideration of the self.Key FeaturesThe only available book on the subjectYouth is shown to be central to contemporary American cultureContributors bring a range of approaches to bear on representations of youth in American culture"

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Note to readers

Introduction: On youth cultural studies

One. Fresh Contacts: Global Culture and the Concept of Generation

Two. Children of the Revolution: Fiction Take to the Streets

Three. Disposable Youth/Disposable Futures: The Crisis of Politics and the Public Life

Four. 'Splendid Fun' in "Elsewhere': Textual Treats for Contemporary Readers in Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did and Other 'Classic' North American Stories for Girls

Five. Ideologies of Youth and the Bildungsromane of S. E. Hinton

Six. 'Something you Can't Unbear': Masculinity, Youth and History in Larry Watson's Montana 1948

Seven. 'Teensomething': American Youth Programming in the 1990s

Eight. The Body's in the Trunk: (Re-) Presenting Generation X

Nine. 'Be Childish, Be Irresponsible, Be Disrespectful, Be Everything this Society Hate's: Punk, Youth and Protest

Ten. Wanting to be Lisa: Generational Rifts, Girl Power and the Globalization of Surf Culture

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474465595

1474465595