Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media

Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. Previous publications include Contemporary British Fiction: A Reader’s Guide to the Essential Criticism (2018), Martin Amis (2015) and The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (co-edited with Nick Hubble and Leigh Wilson, 2015).Beth Johnson is Associate Professor of Media and Film at the University of Leeds, UK. She is author of Paul Abbott (2013), and co-editor of Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations (2012) and Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain (2017) with David Forrest. Andrzej Zieleniec is Lecturer of Sociology at Keele University, UK. He also researches and teaches in media, communication and culture, geography, education studies and criminology. His research and teaching interests focus on the interface between space, society and culture. Previous publications include Space and Social Theory (2007) and Park Spaces: Leisure Culture and Modernity (2013).

“This is a solid compilation of texts, and fortunately not just British subcultures (even though Britain has probably the largest number of subcultures to offer) are examined here, but also some of American and Spanish origin. Once again, Palgraves’s series “Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music” has added another valuable title with a wide range of very different approaches to the many subcultural forms.” (A. Ebert, popcultureshelf.com, October 14, 2018)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part One.  ‘Subcultural Fictions’.- Chapter 2: Girls on the Rampage: 'Bad Girl' Fiction in 1950s America; Bill Osgerby.- Chapter 3: Queering the Grammar School Boy: Class, Sexuality and Authenticity in the works of Colin MacInnes and Ray Gosling; Lucy Robinson and Ben Jones.- Chapter 4. Punk Fiction: Punk in Fiction; Nick Bentley.- Chapter 5. Styles, ‘Codes and Violence’: Subcultural Identities in Contemporary Black Writing of Britain; Dave Ellis.- Part Two. Subcultures in Film, TV and Screen Studies.- Chapter 6. You’re all partied out, dude!: The mainstreaming of heavy metal subcultural tropes, from Bill & Ted to Wayne’s World; Andy R. Brown.- Chapter 7: The Narrative Nightclub; Matthew Cheeseman and David Forrest.- Chapter 8. Don’t Look Back in Anger: Manchester, Supersonic and Made of Stone; Beth Johnson.- Chapter 9. Mod at the Movies: ‘face’ and ‘ticket’ representations of a British subculture; Stephen Glynn.- Part Three. ‘Theoretical and CriticalPerspectives’ in Other Media.- Chapter 10. Figures in black: Heavy Metal and the mourning of the working class; Scott Wilson.- Chapter 11. Shock Rock Horror! The representation and reception of heavy metal horror films in the 1980s; Nedim Hassan.- Chapter 12. Youth, Hysteria and Control in Peter Watkins’ Privilege; Rehan Hyder.- Chapter 13. Representing Subcultural Identity: A photo-essay of Spanish Graffiti and Street Art; Andrzej Zieleniec.- Chapter 14.  From Wayward Youth to Teenage Dreamer: Between the Bedroom and the Street; Jo Croft.- Chapter 15. From Exaltation to Abjection: depictions of subculture in Quadrophenia and Ill Manors; Keely Hughes.- Index