The Edge of Darkness: Youth Culture Since the 1960s

The Edge of Darkness: Youth Culture Since the 1960s

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Published on 2007 by ProQuest

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This dissertation examines political disengagement among predominately white and middle-class left-liberal youth cultures in America and Britain since the late-1960s through their popular culture productions. In particular, it focuses on how these youths have expressed political disengagement through films, television shows, and musical styles that recover and rework symbols and themes from Gothic visual art and literature, a centuries-old genre in which darkness, violence, and horror are central, and which has at its center an overriding political ambivalence. It locates the embrace of Gothic art by these youths in relation to broad political, cultural, and historical contexts in both America and Britain that include: the traumatic era of the late-1960s and early-1970s; the break-up of the postwar consensus from the 1960s to the 1980s; the rise of the New Right in the late-1970s and early-1980s; the threat of downward mobility experienced by the middle class from the 1960s to the present; and the development of Generation X in the early-1980s.

Lenght : 230

Language : en

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