This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts. It brings together scholars working in literary studies, screen studies, sociology and cultural studies whose research interests lie in the aesthetics and cultural politics of youth. It contributes to, and extends, contemporary theoretical perspectives around youth and youth cultures.
Contributors examine a range of topics, including bad girl fiction of the 1950s, novels by subcultural writers such as Colin MacInnes, Alex Wheatle and Courttia Newland, as well as screen representations of Mods, the 1990s Rave culture, heavy metal, and the Manchester scene. Others explore interventions into subcultural theory with respect to metal, subcultural locations, abjection, graffiti cultures, and the potential of subcultures to resist dominant power frameworks in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Part One. Subcultural Fictions.
Chapter 2: Girls on the Rampage: 'Bad Girl' Fiction in 1950s America; Bill Osgerby.
Chapter 3: Queering the Grammar School Boy: Class, Sexuality and Authenticity in the works of Colin MacInnes and Ray Gosling; Lucy Robinson and Ben Jones.
Chapter 4. Punk Fiction: Punk in Fiction; Nick Bentley.
Chapter 5. Styles, Codes and Violence: Subcultural Identities in Contemporary Black Writing of Britain; Dave Ellis.- Part Two. Subcultures in Film, TV and Screen Studies.
Chapter 6. Youre all partied out, dude!: The mainstreaming of heavy metal subcultural tropes, from Bill & Ted to Waynes World; Andy R. Brown.
Chapter 7: The Narrative Nightclub; Matthew Cheeseman and David Forrest.
Chapter 8. Dont Look Back in Anger: Manchester, SlƒÊ
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