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.
| ISBN: | 9780859896474 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2000 |
| Author: | Neil Campbell |
| Publisher: | University of Exeter Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Representing American Culture |
| Genres: |
Age groups: children Age groups: adolescents Cultural studies Regional / International studies |
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 Radiant Hour features in the following genres: Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, Cultural studies, Regional / International studies
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The Radiant Hour was written by Neil Campbell and published by University of Exeter Press
The Radiant Hour has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Representing American Culture series