Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure, the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the "troubled teen" as a site of pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth traces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normative order have been negotiated and contained. Examining television, popular novels, science journalism, new media, and public policy, Julie Passanante Elman shows how the teenager became a cultural touchstone for shifting notions of able
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (256 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781479841424
Serie:
NYU series in social and cultural analysis
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1821004
DDC:
305.2350973
Sprache:
Englisch
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Rebel to Patient; 1 Medicine Is Magical and Magical Is Art: Liberation and Overcoming in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; 2 After School Special Education: Sex, Tolerance, and Rehabilitative Television; 3 Cryin' and Dyin' in the Age of Aliteracy:Romancing Teen Sick-Lit; 4 Crazy by Design: Neuroparenting and Crisis in the Decade of the Brain; Conclusion: Susceptible Citizens in the Age of Wiihabilitation; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author
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