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Youth Cultures Texts, Images, and Identities
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Kerry Mallan, Sharyn Pearce
Book Code: C7409
ISBN: 0-275-97409-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97409-1
224 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2003
List Price: $78.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Honor Book by the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL).
Description: 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 provocative standpoints drawing on film and feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, semiotics, and literary theory, providing useful ways of thinking about the issues, texts, and practices that circulate within youth cultures, indicating their underlying tensions and contradictions. Providing a cross-cultural analysis of these texts, Youth Cultures provides scope for a wide readership open to unorthodox readings and bold interpretations. Many of the writers in this unique new collection write from provocative standpoints drawing on film and feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, semiotics, and literary theory, providing useful ways of thinking about the issues, texts, and practices that circulate within youth cultures, indicating their underlying tensions and contradictions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Tales of Youth in Postmodern Culture by Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce
  • Nothing Sells like Teen Spirit: The Commodification of Youth Culture by Karen Brooks
  • Girls Make Movies by Mary Celese Kearney
  • Stronger Than Yesterday? Romance and Antiromance in Popular Music by Clare Bradford
  • Working Girls or Drop-Dead Gorgeous? Young Girls in Fashion and News by John Hartley and Catharine Lumby
  • "As Wholesome As...":American Pie As a New Millennium Sex Manual by Sharyn Pearce
  • "The Seven Things All Men Love in Bed": Young Women's Magazines and the Governance of Femininity by Gordon Tait
  • Living in a Young Country? Youthful Creativity and Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom by David Buckingham
  • The Unheimlich Maneuver: Uncanny Domesticity in the Urban Waif Tale by Claudia Nelson
  • "I'll Never Be the Same After That Summer": From Abjection to Subjective Agency in Teen Films by John Stephens
  • Hitting Below the Belt: Action Femininity and Representations of Female Subjectivity by Kerry Mallan
  • Game On: Adolescent Texts to Read and Play by Lisa Sainsbury
  • The Orangutan in the Library: The Comfort of Strangeness in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels by David Buchbinder
  • Coprophilia for Kids: The Culture of Grossness by Roderick McGillis
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002029773
LCC Class: HQ796
Dewey Class: 305
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