CONTENTS


Michael DeAngelis

Gay Male Spectatorship and Keanu Reeves

David Desser

Anime: Its Origins in Japan and Its Appeal to Worldwide Youth

Kirby Farrell

Making a Killing in Post-Traumatic True Romance

Murray Forman

The 'Hood Took Me Under: Urban Geograpies of Danger in New Black Cinema

Edward A. Gamarra, Jr.

Generation X and Neurasthenia: Cultural Pathology in Reality Bites, Singles,
and Spanking the Monkey

Barry Keith Grant

Once More Without Feeling: The Disaffection of Contemporary Youth

Keith C. Hampson

Authenticity, Music, Television

Michael Hoechsmann

I am White, Male and Middle-Class in a Global Era: Marketing (to) Generation X

Mary Celeste Kearney

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?: Female Avengers in 90's Teenpics

James C. McKelly

Youth Cinema and the Culture of Rebellion: Heathers and the Rebel Archetype

E. Graham McKinley

In the Back of Your Head: Beverly Hills, 90210, Friends, and
the Discursive Construction of Identity

Mark Crispin Miller

North American Youth and the Entertainment State: A Talk

Anver Saloojee

Hollywood and the Black Youth of South Africa: Culture, Rebellion and Revolution

Timothy Shary

The only place to go is inside: Confusions of Sexuality and Class in Clueless and Kids

Susan Sherr

Our Children, Our Enemies: Media Framing of Children-at-Risk

Sarah E. Teres

Negative Gender Stereotypes in Disney Animation

Raúl Tovares

Under Construction: The Mexican American Youth Gang Story and Local Television News

Lauren R. Tucker

Calvin Klein Jeans Advertising: Kiddie Porn or Media Ado About Nothing?

Elizabeth D. Waiters

90210 in Black & White and Color: Inter-Ethnic Friendship on Prime Time Television

Rinaldo Walcott

Reading the Queer Narrative of Clement Virgo's Rude:
The Politics of Third Cinema in Canada

Steven Woodward

Sudden in a shaft of sunlight: Krzysztof Kieslowski Looking at Youth