| Description |
xxiii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 44
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 44.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : American X : the ironic history of a generation / Daniel Leidl -- Introduction : Generation X goes global--tales of accelerated cultures / Christine Henseler -- pt. 1. What Generation X? Moving beyond the white middle-class slacker -- A tale of three worlds or more : young people, media, and class in India / Shakuntala Banaji -- Locating Generation X : taste and identity in transitional South Africa / Jan Schenk and Jeremy Seekings -- Generation X meets the Uhuru generation in East Africa / Mwenda Ntarangwi -- pt. 2. Generation X rocks to scenes, screens, and comic strips -- Young, sexy, and transnational in Mexico and Brazil : commodifying Generation X in Antonio Serrano's Sexo, pudor y lágrimas and its film versions / William García -- A century-end rock scene and China's Generation X on screen / Harry H. Kuoshu -- Generation X in Greek comics / Evi Sampanikou -- pt. 3. Riding on airwaves, playing for real, and reading without a net -- An Irish feminist Gen X aesthetic : televisual memories in Anne Enright's The wig my father wore / Claire Bracken -- Defending Narcissus : Frédéric Beigbeder and the French pop novel / Alain-Phillippe Durand -- Playing for real : simulated games of identity in Spain's Gen X narrative / Virginia Newhall Rademacher -- Opio en las nubes' liquid world : Colombia's Generation X reads without a net / Juan Manuel Espinosa -- pt. 4. Tracing Generation X : going, going ... still not gone? -- Tutti pazzi per amore : Gen X, Italian style / Giancarlo Lombardi -- Russian youth from the 1990s until 2010 : generation changes / Elena Omelchenko -- From Generation X to Generation @ : transitional traces and youth identities in Latin America / Carles Feixa, [et al.] -- pt. 5. Conclusion -- Generation G comes of age : youth and revolution in the MIddle East and North Africa / Mark Levine. |
| Subject |
Generation X.
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Generation X. |
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Youth.
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Youth. |
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Youth -- Social conditions.
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Youth -- Social conditions. |
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Culture.
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Culture. |
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Popular culture.
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Popular culture. |
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Youth. |
| Added Author |
Henseler, Christine, 1969-
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| ISBN |
9780415699440 |
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0415699444 |
| Standard No. |
40021479929 |
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