Arrested Development
Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2016
288 pages
978-1-4742-8701-2 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1990s, both politics and pop culture have been dominated by the twin motifs of the victim and the child. Calcutt traces the history of these motifs back to their origins in the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s, and concludes that the counterculture, far from being liberating, has provided a ready-made verbal and visual language for today's victim culture and the authoritarian politics arising from it. This title discusses the erosion of adulthood as a pop cultural phenomenon that requires demystification and as a social problem which must be overcome.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-8701-2 (9781474287012)
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10/2016
Bloomsbury Academic
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Andrew Calcutt
Arrested Development
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04/1998
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Person
Andrew Calcutt is Principal Lecturer in Journalism at the University of East London, UK.
Content
Preface
Introduction: Safe
1. Alienation
2. Now
3. The Child
4. Vulnerable
5. Madness
6. Spirit
7. Irony
8. Wiggas
9. Limits
10. The End of Adulthood?
Index
Introduction: Safe
1. Alienation
2. Now
3. The Child
4. Vulnerable
5. Madness
6. Spirit
7. Irony
8. Wiggas
9. Limits
10. The End of Adulthood?
Index
