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Arrested Development

Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood

Andrew Calcutt author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:6th Oct '16

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

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.

ISBN: 9781474287005

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 540g

288 pages