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Fashioning Italian Youth

Young People's Identity and Style in Italian Popular Culture, 1958-75

Cecilia Brioni author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:31st Jan '23

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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.

ISBN: 9781526162007

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm

Weight: 531g

256 pages