Table of Contents

Introduction: Tales of Youth in Postmodern Culture by Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce Nothing Sells like Teen Spirit: The Commodification of Youth Culture by Karen Brooks Girls Make Movies by Mary Celese Kearney Stronger Than Yesterday? Romance and Antiromance in Popular Music by Clare Bradford Working Girls or Drop-Dead Gorgeous? Young Girls in Fashion and News by John Hartley and Catharine Lumby "As Wholesome As…":American Pie As a New Millennium Sex Manual by Sharyn Pearce "The Seven Things All Men Love in Bed": Young Women's Magazines and the Governance of Femininity by Gordon Tait Living in a Young Country? Youthful Creativity and Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom by David Buckingham The Unheimlich Maneuver: Uncanny Domesticity in the Urban Waif Tale by Claudia Nelson "I'll Never Be the Same After That Summer": From Abjection to Subjective Agency in Teen Films by John Stephens Hitting Below the Belt: Action Femininity and Representations of Female Subjectivity by Kerry Mallan Game On: Adolescent Texts to Read and Play by Lisa Sainsbury The Orangutan in the Library: The Comfort of Strangeness in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels by David Buchbinder Coprophilia for Kids: The Culture of Grossness by Roderick McGillis Index

About the Author

KERRY MALLAN is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. SHARYN PEARCE is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Her recent publications include Shameless Scribblers: Australian Women's Journalism 1890-1995, Strange Journeys: The Works of Gary Crew, and, as editor, Manning the Next Millennium.