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

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Fashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young peoples 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 peoples 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.

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Cecilia Brioni is Research Fellow of Italian at Trinity College Dublin