An exploration of the representation of youth in American culture, focusing on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory.

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both critical and commercial terms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)