Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood

by Andrew Calcutt

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474287005
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/06/2016
Series:	Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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