{"product_id":"rebels-9780822336921","title":"Rebels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cultural history of the political legitimization of youth rebellion during the Cold War era\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRebels\u003c\/i\u003e is a great book about bad boys and girls, melodrama and rock ‘n’ roll, and the emergence of ‘identity’ as a site of social concern and capitalist fantasy: a focused, engaging revision of white Cold War pop culture aesthetics in the United States.”—Lauren Berlant, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a bold and original study of Cold War masculinity, one that will force scholars to reconsider many of their assumptions about the gender and sexual politics of Cold War culture. In showing how the ‘bad boy’ functioned as a sign of democratic possibility, Leerom Medovoi opens up new ways of thinking about the relation between the 1950s and 1960s.”—Robert J. Corber, author of \u003ci\u003eHomosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e 1. Identitarian Thought and the Cold War World 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cold War Literature and the National Allegory: The Identity Canon of Holden Caulfield 53\u003cbr\u003e 3. Transcommodification: Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Suburban Counterimaginary 91\u003cbr\u003e 4. Identity Hits the Screen: Teenpics and the Boying of Rebellion 135\u003cbr\u003e 5. Oedipus in Suburbia: Bad Boy and the Fordist Family Drama 167\u003cbr\u003e 6. Beat Fraternity and the Generation of Identity 215\u003cbr\u003e 7. Where the Girls Were: Figuring the Female Rebel 317\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of Identity 331\u003cbr\u003e Notes 359\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 377\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406040572247,"sku":"9780822336921","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822336921.jpg?v=1730494338","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rebels-9780822336921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}