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Youth, Murder, Spectacle The Cultural Politics Of ""Youth In Crisis""
By Charles R Acland
Copyright 1995
188 Pages
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Routledge
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In this book, 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. 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 perceived crisis of American youth. After examining the... Read more
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
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Acland, Charles R
