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This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how youth has been represented in American culture, using as its main focus literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory. Themes such as race, class, gender, power, sexuality and authority are considered by new authors as well as major North American writers such as Henry Giroux, Jon Lewis and Charles Acland. The essays seek to present innovative and challenging analyses of new and classic texts from different chronological periods and raise key questions about the significance of youth within American culture. The collection emphasizes the ideological nature of youth and its centrality to a complex reading of popular culture.

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Neil Campbell is Head of American Studies at the University of Derby. He is co-author of American Cultural Studies (1997) and author of Cultures of the New West (2000).

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