Arrested Development

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Calcutt is Principal Lecturer in Journalism at the University of East London! UK. This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on various aspects of cultural studies. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: Safe1. Alienation2. Now3. The Child4. Vulnerable5. Madness6. Spirit7. Irony8. Wiggas9. Limits10. The End of Adulthood? Index

Vorwort
This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on various aspects of cultural studies.

Autorentext
Andrew Calcutt is Principal Lecturer in Journalism at the University of East London, UK.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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