Youth, Murder, Spectacle

The Cultural Politics Of ""Youth In Crisis""

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Charles R Acland, Charles R. Acland

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In this book, Charles Acland examines the culture that has produced both our heightened state of awareness and the bedrock reality of youth violence in the United States. Beginning with a critique of statistical evidence of youth violence, Acland compares and juxtaposes a variety of popular cultural representations of what has come to be a perceive

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-28
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367314071

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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