Youth, Murder, Spectacle - The Cultural Politics of 'Youth in Crisis'

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.

List of contents

Youth -- Youth in Crisis -- The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility -- 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” -- 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

About the author

Acland, Charles R

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Charles R Acland, Charles R. Acland
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.1994
• EAN: 9780813322872
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-2287-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Jugendkriminalität, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Altersgruppen: Jugendliche, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, Juvenile offenders