Journal entry 2 gender roles consumerism

I have been thinking a lot about whether I think of youth as male or female, and I must admit that most of the time I am associating youth subcultures and styles with males (except Goth and Emo subcultures).   If I reflect back to my own teen years, I recall the females having cliques, but I am not certain I would go so far as to say they were subcultures or necessarily had varying styles.   I’m thinking of focusing my project on how female youth communicate trends online, and... read more

Pulping Fictions: Consuming Culture Across the Literature/Media Divide , an anthology of critical essays, is the first volume in the Film/Fiction series from Pluto Press. The series, all installments of which are edited by Deborah Cartmell, I. Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, and Imelda Whelehan , aims "to interrogate the interface between English and media studies by unashamedly admitting to and taking full advantage of consumer demand, and thereby examining the construction and consumption of the...