Youth, murder, spectacle : the cultural politics of "youth in crisis"
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Youth, murder, spectacle : the cultural politics of "youth in crisis"
（Cultural studies）
Westview Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162) and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780813322865
内容説明
Through a cultural studies analysis of historical context, this book exposes the complex social forces at work upon the idea of youth violence in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. It argues that the meaning of crime is never inherent in the event itself and examines other sites of representation.
目次
- Youth: Youth in Crisis
- The Wreckage of Body, Mind and Morals - On Youth, Deviation and Visibility. Murder: News and Sensation - 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 - Felt Crisis in America.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813322872
内容説明
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 dominant paradigms for scholarly research into youth deviance, Acland explores the ideas circulating in the popular media about a sensational crime known as the "preppy murder" and the confession to that crime. Arguing that the meaning of crime is never inherent in the event itself, he evaluates other sites of representation, including newspaper photographs (with a comparison to the Central Park "wilding"), daytime television talk shows (Oprah, Geraldo, and Donahue), and Hollywood youth films (in particular River's Edge). Through a cultural studies analysis of historical context, Acland blurs the center of our preconceptions and exposes the complex social forces at work upon this issue in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Acland asks of the social critic, "How do we know that we are measuring what we say we are measuring, and how do we know what the numbers are saying? Arguments must be made to interpret findings, which suggests that conclusions are provisional and, to various degrees, sites of contestation." He launches into this gratifying book to show that beyond the problematic category of "actual" crime, the United States has seen the construction of a new "spectacle of wasted youth" that will have specific consequences for the daily lives of the next generation.
目次
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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