| Description |
xi, 334 leaves ; 28 cm |
| Thesis |
Thesis (Ph. D., Comparative Culture)--University of California, Irvine, 1998. |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: leaves 283-284. |
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-334). |
| Reproduction |
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 1998. xi, 334 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
"The dissertation examines post-World War II films featuring male juvenile delinquents in relation to then-prevailing ideas about criminality and deviance (as evidenced in both mass media and "expert" discourses). Postwar juvenile delinquent films associated rebellious boys with aberrant, sometimes even monstrous, but desirable identities, behaviors, and bodies, at once setting and expanding the limits of condoned constructions of masculinity"--Author's curriculum vitae. |
| Contents |
Patrolling the frontiers : expert explanations and the containment of juvenile delinquency -- These brutal young : the postwar moral panic over juvenile delinquency -- So young, so bad : defining female delinquency and sexual deviance -- Culture wars at the drive-in : juvenile delinquent films and the rise of the teen consumer. |
| Subject |
Juvenile delinquents -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Juvenile delinquents. |
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United States. |
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Public opinion. |
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Juvenile delinquents -- Sexual behavior -- United States.
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Juvenile delinquents -- Sexual behavior. |
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Juvenile delinquency films -- United States.
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Juvenile delinquency films. |
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Masculinity -- United States.
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Masculinity. |
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Masculinity in popular culture -- United States.
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Masculinity in popular culture. |
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Gender identity -- United States.
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Gender identity. |
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Comic books and teenagers -- United States.
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Comic books and teenagers. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
| Subject |
Gender identity. |
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