Table of Contents; Introduction: On Youth Cultural Studies; Neil Campbell (University of Derby); 1. Fresh Contacts: Global Culture and the Concept of Generation; Charles R. Acland (Concordia University, Canada); 2. Children of the Revolution: Fiction Takes to the Streets; Elizabeth Young; 3. Disposable Youth / Disposable Futures: The Crisis of Politics and Public Life Henry A. Giroux (Penn State University); 4. 'Splendid Fun' in 'Elsewhere': Textual Treats for Contemporary Readers in What Katy Did and other 'Classic' North American Stories for Girls'; Jenny Robinson (University of Derby); 5. Ideologies of Youth and the Bildungsromane of S.E. Hinton; David Holloway (University of Derby); 6. 'Something You Can't Unhear': Youth, History and the West in Larry Watson's Montana 1948; Neil Campbell (University of Derby); 7. Teensomething: American Youth Programming in the 1990s; Simon Philo (University of Derby); 8. The Body's in the Trunk: (Re-) Presenting Generation X; Jon Lewis (Oregon State University); 9. 'Be Childish, Be Irresponsible, Be Disrespectful, Be Everything this Society Hates': Punk, Youth and Protest; Simon Philo (University of Derby); 10. Wanting to be Lisa: Generational Rifts, Girl Power, and the Globalization of Surf Culture; Krista Comer (Rice University, Houston);; The Contributors; Charles Acland is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montreal.; He is co-editor of Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions (1999) and author of Screen Traffic: Cinema Going in a Global Context (2003) and Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of 'Youth in Crisis' (1995).; Neil Campbell is subject leader for American Studies at the University of Derby. He is co-author of American Cultural Studies (1997) and author of The Cultures of the American New West (2000).; Krista Comer is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rice University, Houston. She is author of Landscapes of the New West (1999).; Henry Giroux is the Waterbury Chair Professor at Penn State University. His most recent books include Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence and Youth (1996), Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media and the Destruction of Youth (1997), Stealing Innocence: Youth, Corporate Power and the Politics of Culture (2000) and Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies (2000).; David Holloway teaches American Studies at the University of Derby. He is author of The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy (2001).; Jon Lewis is Professor of English at Oregon State University. His books include The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture (1992), Whom God Wishes to Destroy! Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood (1995) and The New American Cinema (1998).; Simon Philo teaches American Studies at the University of Derby. He is author of American Popular Music (forthcoming).; Jenny Robinson is a teacher of English and American Studies at the University of Derby and Burton College.; Elizabeth Young was a freelance writer who published widely on contemporary culture and fiction. She was co-author of Shopping in Space (1992).
