Youth Identities

Teens and Twens in British Culture

edited by Claus-Ulrich Viol, Merle Tonnies and Gerd Stratmann

Book cover: Youth Identities

Extent: 224 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Communications, Film, & Media Studies, Literary Studies

Series: anglistik & englischunterricht

Series volume number: 63

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2000)

ISBN: 9783825311346

Price: $25.00

Out of stock

Contents: – Bill Osgerby: ‘The Young Ones’. Youth, Consumption and Representations of the ‘Teenager’ in Post-War Britain. – Rachel Thomson / Janet Holland: Sexual Relationship, Negotiation and Decision Making. – Mike Storry: Teenagers and Advertising – Peter Bennett: Teen Pop and Teenage Identity in Britain. – Claus-Ulrich Viol: A Crack in the Union Jack? National Identity in British Popular Music. – Merle Tonnies: Problematic Youth Identities in Contemporary British Dramas – Gerd Stratmann: ‘Absolute Beginners’ and Their Heirs in Contemporary British Novels. – Martin Bruggemeier / Horst W. Drescher: A Subculture and its Characterization in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. – Jurgen Neubauer: Critical Media Literacy and the Representation of Youth in Trainspotting. – Merle Tonnies / Claus-Ulrich Viol: Young Britain in Perspective. The Views of Rebecca Ray, shez 360, Chandrasonic, Kathy Lette, and Anne Fine.

  • Edited by Gerd Stratmann
  • Edited by Merle Tonnies
  • Edited by Claus-Ulrich Viol