Fashioning Italian youth
Young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75
By Cecilia Brioni
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- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 256
- Price: £80.00
- Published Date: January 2023
- Series: Studies in Popular Culture
Description
Fashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 1958-75. By looking at visual and written representations of transnational youth trends - like urlatori, amici, beats and hippies - in Italian teen magazines, Musicarelli films and youth-oriented television programmes, it investigates changes in the social construction of Italian young people's political, generational, national, ethnic and gender identities. The monograph connects the emergence of youth-oriented transnational trends to the national and global history of young people, and explores the dynamics that contributed to the construction of a specifically Italian youth culture in this period.
Contents
Introduction: Noi siamo i giovani: youth in Italian popular media
1 Urlatori and amici, 1958-65
2 Beats, 1965-67
3 Hippies, 1967-70
4 Fragmented youth, 1970-75
Coda: Noi, ragazzi di oggi
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Index
Author
Cecilia Brioni is Research Fellow of Italian at Trinity College Dublin