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- 1 online resource (336 p.) : 11 halftones.
- Summary
- From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired images symbolize the forms of labor and leisure that American society has staked out for contemporary youth. A startling look at youth in our time, Consuming Youth will interest anyone concerned with film, television, and popular culture.
- Uniform Title
- Consuming Youth (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Consuming Youth (Online)
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- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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- Contents
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Cybernetic Vampire of Consumer Youth Culture -- One. Youth Fetishism: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld -- Two. Dreams of Social Flying: The Yuppie-Slacker Dialectic -- Three. Voracious Androgynes: The Vampire Lestat on MTV -- Four. Microserfing the Third Wave: The Dark Side of the Sunrise Industries -- Five. Fast Sofas and Cyborg Couch Potatoes: Generation X on the Infobahn -- Six. Teenage Mutant Cyborg Vampires: Consumption As Prosthesis -- Notes -- Index
- OCLC
- ssj0000129520
- Author
Latham, Robert.
- Title
Consuming Youth [electronic resource] : Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption / Robert Latham.
- Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110635386
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