Radiant Hour: Versions of Youth in American Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-85989-647-4
Verlag: UNIV OF EXETER

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

This book of interdisciplinary essays explores how youth has been represented in American culture. The book focuses on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory, presenting innovative and challenging analyses of new and classic texts from the 1890s to the 1990s.

The collection contributes to the necessary and important debate over the meanings of youth representation within American culture, emphasising the ideological nature of youth and its centrality to a complex reading of popular culture.

In particular, the book examines issues of gender, race and sexuality as central to the construction of youth identity and to the other significant relationships between youth and authority. It deliberately asserts the contradictions in youth representations and denies any easy definitions that might serve to compound stereotypes or sustain vested interests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction - the radiant hour - on youth cultural studies, Neil Campbell; fresh contacts - global culture and the concept of generation, Charles R. Acland; children of the revolution - fiction takes to the streets, Elizabeth Young; disposable youth/disposable futures - the crisis of politics and public life, Henry A. Giroux; how Katy lied -pictures of joy and pain - "What Katy Did" and other American girls' stories, Jenny Robinson; ideologies of youth and the Bildungsromane of S.E. Hinton; "something you can't unhear" - youth, history and the west in Larry Watson's "Montana 1948", Neil Campbell; teensomething -American youth programming in the 1990s, Simon Philo; the body's in the trunk - (re-)presenting generation X, Jon Lewis.

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Campbell is Head of American Studies at the University of Derby. He is co-author of American Cultural Studies (1997) and author of Cultures of the New West (2000).