Charles R Acland

Youth, Murder, Spectacle

The Cultural Politics Of ""Youth In Crisis""

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Produktbeschreibung

Charles R. Acland examines the culture that has produced both our heightened state of awareness and the bedrock reality of youth violence in the United States. He compares and juxtaposes a variety of popular cultural representations of what has come to be a perceived crisis of American youth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367314071
• ISBN-10: 036731407X
• Artikelnr.: 57732391

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Youth
Youth in Crisis
The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility
Part 2: Murder
News and Sensations: On Images of Crime
"Tall, Dark, and Lethal": The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder
The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of "Self
Evidence"
Part 3: Spectacle
Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show
The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze
The Spectacle of Wasted Youth: A Felt Crisis in the United States