Fashioning Italian youth

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Author: Cecilia BrioniISBN: 9781526162007Publisher: Manchester University PressYear first published: 31 Jan 2023Pages: 272 Format: HardbackFashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 195875.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. Show more