American Youth Cultures by Neil Campbell
This book considers themes such as race, class, gender, power, sexuality and authority and presents innovative and challenging analyses of texts from the post-war period. Key questions are raised about the significance of youth within American culture.
The style is lucid and concise, introducing a good deal of material in an engaging and straightforward manner without losing sight of the complexities and difficulties this material exposesMajor schools of thought and individual theorists (Chicago School, Birmingham cultural studies, Gramsci, Foucault, etc) are introduced and key terms explained with admirable lightness of touch and generosity toward the uninitiated! the volume is very coherent, accessible and topical. -- John Beck, University of Newcastle ' strongly support the immediate paperback release of Neil Campbell's American Youth Culture. This text has been known to me, as a hardback book carried by my own institution's library, but its reissue in paper is sure to make the book one instructors will order for undergraduate and graduate coursework. -- Krista Comer, Rice University The style is lucid and concise, introducing a good deal of material in an engaging and straightforward manner without losing sight of the complexities and difficulties this material exposes. Major schools of thought and individual theorists (Chicago School, Birmingham cultural studies, Gramsci, Foucault, etc) are introduced and key terms explained with admirable lightness of touch and generosity toward the uninitiated! the volume is very coherent, accessible and topical. ' strongly support the immediate paperback release of Neil Campbell's American Youth Culture. This text has been known to me, as a hardback book carried by my own institution's library, but its reissue in paper is sure to make the book one instructors will order for undergraduate and graduate coursework.
Neil Campbell is Head of American Studies at the University of Derby. Author of The Cultures of the American New West (EUP, 2000) and co-author of American Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1997).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748619337 |
| ISBN 10 | 074861933X |
| Title | American Youth Cultures |
| Author | Neil Campbell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2004-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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