The Abercrombie age : millennial aspiration and the promise of consumer culture
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
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"Be popular and good-looking-it's the key to a happy life. Luckily, with a bit of know-how and money, you, too, can have it all. At least, that's what teen pop culture was selling in surround sound at the turn of the millennium. From movies like Cluelessto TV's Dawson's Creek to the music videos on MTV's Total Request Live and the catalogs of Abercrombie & Fitch, a consumer-minded ethos drove pop culture storytelling as millennials came of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in the long shadow ofthe Great Recession, the upwardly mobile aspirations fostered by the era's popular culture and media seem to have been thwarted. Many millennials today lack the wealth their parents had at the same age, and the gaps between rich and poor rival those of the Gilded Age. The Abercrombie Age reconsiders teen popular culture from the turn of the twenty-first century, revealing how it told young people that life not only could but surely would get better. Far from frivolous or forgettable, the era's superficial, materialistic culture sold millennials unrealistic expectations of what life could offer, setting up a stark juxtaposition with the realities of today"-- Provided by publisher.

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Table of Contents

Abercrombie, aspiration, and consumer culture
Back to school '97: understanding the Abercrombie teen
Spring break '99: 'Cruel Intentions' and the millennium high school film
Summer '99: "Summer Girls" and intertextual teen TV
Spring break '00:'The Skulls' and the millennial college experience
Spring break '01: revisiting contemporaneous critiques
Spring break '04: 'Mean Girls' and post-9/11 high school
Summer '06: 'The Devil Wears Prada' and expectations of millennial adulthood
Christmas '08: Goodbye to 'TRL', and the legacy of the Abercrombie teen.

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Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
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Book
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2410
Language
English
ISBN
9781469680910 : PAP, 1469680912 : PAP

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Be popular and good-looking-it's the key to a happy life. Luckily, with a bit of know-how and money, you, too, can have it all. At least, that's what teen pop culture was selling in surround sound at the turn of the millennium. From movies like Cluelessto TV's Dawson's Creek to the music videos on MTV's Total Request Live and the catalogs of Abercrombie & Fitch, a consumer-minded ethos drove pop culture storytelling as millennials came of age in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in the long shadow ofthe Great Recession, the upwardly mobile aspirations fostered by the era's popular culture and media seem to have been thwarted. Many millennials today lack the wealth their parents had at the same age, and the gaps between rich and poor rival those of the Gilded Age. The Abercrombie Age reconsiders teen popular culture from the turn of the twenty-first century, revealing how it told young people that life not only could but surely would get better. Far from frivolous or forgettable, the era's superficial, materialistic culture sold millennials unrealistic expectations of what life could offer, setting up a stark juxtaposition with the realities of today"-- Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lascity, M. E. (2024). The Abercrombie age: millennial aspiration and the promise of consumer culture . The University of North Carolina Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lascity, Myles Ethan. 2024. The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lascity, Myles Ethan. The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Lascity, M. E. (2024). The abercrombie age: millennial aspiration and the promise of consumer culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Lascity, Myles Ethan. The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.

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