Fashioning Italian youth: Young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75

by Cecilia Brioni

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526161994
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	01/31/2023
Series:	Studies in Popular Culture
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Cecilia Brioni is Research Fellow of Italian at Trinity College Dublin

Table of 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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