Overview
Project status: In progress
It is multi-(inter) disciplinary as it includes literary studies, children's and youth writing, film studies, popular culture and new media.
- Research leader
- Research team
- QUT
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Creative Industries Faculty
- Start date
- 1st January 2010
- End date
- 1st January 2011
- Research area
- Digital media, communication and culture
- Keywords
- youth culture, culture
Professor Sharyn Pearce
Dr Vivienne Muller
Dr Lesley HawkesDetails
This project is an extension and updating of previous research which attempted to interrogate the cultural spaces that are represented in texts produced for young people, about them, and by them (see principally Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce, Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities, Praeger, 2002). The diverse cultural landscapes of popular literature, film and television, games, graphic novels, magazines and music will be examined. Key themes include:
- How are the identities, subjectivities and desires of young people catered for/represented in their texts, electronic media, and social practices?
- How are class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity shaped in popular cultural discourses for young people?
- How are images of male and female patterns of gender behaviour and intersubjectivity constructed in these texts?
- What boundaries (if any) exist between texts aimed at the youth and adult markets?
Project description
This project will have the following components. The team will:
- research the contemporary field of Youth Cultures for an introductory chapter
- commission chapters on youth topics (e.g. Stephenie Meyer's Twilight -book and film), Shaun Tan's graphic novels, manga, blogging)
- research and write chapters of their own
- submit finished manuscript to publisher.
Publications and output
- Publication of an edited book.
- Conference publications.
