| Description |
xix, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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xix, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Tales of Youth in Postmodern Culture / Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce -- 1. Nothing Sells like Teen Spirit: The Commodification of Youth Culture / Karen Brooks -- 2. Girls Make Movies / Mary Celeste Kearney -- 3. Stronger Than Yesterday? Romance and Antiromance in Popular Music / Clare Bradford -- 4. Working Girls or Drop-Dead Gorgeous? Young Girls in Fashion and News / John Hartley and Catharine Lumby -- 5. "As Wholesome As ...": American Pie As a New Millennium Sex Manual / Sharyn Pearce -- 6. "The Seven Things All Men Love in Bed": Young Women's Magazines and the Governance of Femininity / Gordon Tait -- 7. Living in a Young Country? Youthful Creativity and Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom / David Buckingham -- 8. The Unheimlich Maneuver: Uncanny Domesticity in the Urban Waif Tale / Claudia Nelson -- 9. "I'll Never Be the Same After That Summer": From Abjection to Subjective Agency in Teen Films / John Stephens -- 10. Hitting Below the Belt: Action Femininity and Representations of Female Subjectivity / Kerry Mallan -- 11. Game On: Adolescent Texts to Read and Play / Lisa Sainsbury -- 12. The Orangutan in the Library: The Comfort of Strangeness in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels / David Buchbinder -- 13. Coprophilia for Kids: The Culture of Grossness / Roderick McGillis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Youth.
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Popular culture.
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Mass media and youth.
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Motion pictures and youth.
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Music and youth.
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Youth in mass media.
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Youth in motion pictures.
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Youth in literature.
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| Author |
Mallan, Kerry.
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Pearce, Sharyn.
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| LC no. |
2002029773 |
| ISBN |
027597409X : |
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