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BL
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711360
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b533549
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| Main Entry
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Latham, Rob,1959-
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| Title & Author
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Consuming youth : : vampires, cyborgs, and the culture of consumption /\ Rob Latham
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2002
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x, 321 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226468917
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: 0226468925
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: 9780226468914
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: 9780226468921
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-303) and index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Cybernetic Vampire of Consumer -- Youth Culture -- The Factory of the Code -- Fordism, Post-Fordism, and Youth -- Consuming Youth -- Youth Fetishism: The Lost Boys -- Cruise Mallworld -- The Dual Metaphorics of Consumer Vampirism -- The Trauma of Consumption -- Vidkids Go Malling -- Teen Idols, Fashion Victims, and Proletarian Shoppers -- Dreams of Social Flying: The Yuppie-Slacker -- Dialectic -- Morbid Economies -- The Phenomenology of Unbridled Consumption -- Punk Nihilists and Donner Party Barbies -- Voracious Androgynes: The Vampire -- Lestat on MTV -- Insatiable Narcissism -- The Consuming Hungers of Ziggy Stardust -- Queer Nations -- Microserfing the Third Wave: The Dark Side of the Sunrise Industries -- Postindustrialism and "Flexible" -- Capitalism -- Homebrews and Burnouts in Silicon Valley -- Modular Selves and Posthuman Consumers -- Fast Sofas and Cyborg Couch Potatoes: Generation X on the Infobahn -- Couch Commandos versus Zombie Systems -- Bar-Coding Digital Youth -- On the Road and On the Screen -- Information Road Narratives -- Teenage Mutant Cyborg Vampires: Consumption As Prosthesis -- Hacking the Codez of Digital Capitalism -- Cyberpunks and Technopagans -- Live-Wired Teen Idols and Pretty Boy Crossovers -- Decadent Utopias of Hyperconsumerism -- Notes -- Index
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| Abstract
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From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within popular culture. In this work Rob Latham explains why, giving a perspective on youth culture and the media
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Consumer behavior-- United States
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Young adult consumers-- United States-- Attitudes
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Consommateurs - Comportement - États-Unis
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Jeunes adultes consommateurs - États-Unis - Attitudes
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| Dewey Classification
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658.8/34/0842
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| LC Classification
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HC110.C6L37 2002
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