Gen X At Middle Age In Popular Culture
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Author |
: Pamela W. Hollander |
Publisher |
: Generation X: Studies in Culture, Demographics, and Media Representation |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2020-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1793617333 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781793617330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gen X at Middle Age in Popular Culture by : Pamela W. Hollander
This book examines the portrayal of Generation X in contemporary television, movies, music, and internet sources. Drawing on generational theory, cultural studies theory, race theory, and feminist theory, the essays analyze the role of Generation X in American popular culture in relation to both Baby Boomers and Millennials.
Author |
: Pamela W. Hollander |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2020-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793617347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793617341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gen X at Middle Age in Popular Culture by : Pamela W. Hollander
Born roughly between 1964 and 1980, Generation X has received much less critical attention than the two generations that precede and follow it: the Baby Boomers and Millennials. This essay collection examines representations of Generation X in contemporary popular culture, including in television, movies, music, and internet sources. Drawing on generational theory, cultural studies theory, race theory, and feminist theory, the essays in this volume consider the past identities of Generation X, relationships with members of younger generations, modern appropriation of Generation X aesthetics, interactions of Generation X members with family, and the existential values of Generation X.
Author |
: Ada Calhoun |
Publisher |
: Grove Press |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2020-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802147868 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802147860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why We Can't Sleep by : Ada Calhoun
The acclaimed author explores the hidden crises of Gen X women in this “engaging hybrid of first-person confession, reportage [and] pop culture analysis” (The New Republic). Ada Calhoun was married with children and a good career—and yet she was miserable. She thought she had no right to complain until she realized how many other Generation X women felt the same way. What could be behind this troubling trend? To find out, Calhoun delved into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw that Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age—problems that were being largely overlooked. Calhoun spoke with women across America who were part of the generation raised to “have it all.” She found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. And instead of being heard, they were being told to lean in, take “me-time,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament. She offers practical advice on how to ourselves out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.
Author |
: Douglas Coupland |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 031205436X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312054366 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Generation X by : Douglas Coupland
Three twenty-something young adults, working at low-paying, no-future jobs, tell one another modern tales of love and death.
Author |
: Matthew C. Henry |
Publisher |
: Untreed Reads |
Total Pages |
: 13 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611874754 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611874750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Generation Jan by : Matthew C. Henry
As the first wave of Baby Boomers begins to retire, their departure presents an awkward power vacuum in the American cultural, political, and business arenas. Though many members of Generation X expected to inherit the reins of power and influence in the late 2000s, workplace trends at the time showed that the Boomers had taken a liking not to the Xers who were waiting in the wings, but the new Milennials in the workplace. Milennials, or Generation Y, are the cohort born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, and their optimistic, group-centric workplace worldview presented a stark contrast to the isolated and cynical outlook traditionally seen in many Gen-Xers. Thus, as Xers found themselves overlooked in favor of their younger counterparts, many began to consider themselves the middle children in the workplace. Matthew Henry analyzes this "middle child" position of Generation X using a Gen-X popular culture framework. Looking at the Boomers' origins in post-World War II culture, and drawing parallels between Boomer and Millennial beliefs and attitudes, he makes several arguments for the May-December relationship between the two generations and suggests a possible solution for the Xers who often find themselves neglected in between.
Author |
: Martin K. Wallace |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786486113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786486112 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Generation X Librarian by : Martin K. Wallace
Generation X includes individuals born roughly between 1961 and 1981. This generation has faced major advances in technology, environmental degradation, and widening economic injustice, all of which affect libraries and librarians. This collection of critical essays highlights the special challenges that face Generation X librarians. Topics covered include management and leadership, rapidly changing technology, social attitudes and stereotypes within popular culture, and how Generation X librarians have responded to or developed in response to those themes. This work fills many of the gaps present in the professional literature on librarianship and our younger generations.
Author |
: Matthew Hennessey |
Publisher |
: Encounter Books |
Total Pages |
: 124 |
Release |
: 2020-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781641770651 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1641770651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Zero Hour for Gen X by : Matthew Hennessey
In Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley “visionaries,” and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things. Soon Gen Xers will be the only cohort of Americans who remember life as it was lived before the arrival of the Internet. They are, as Hennessey dubs them, “the last adult generation,” the sole remaining link to a time when childhood was still a bit dangerous but produced adults who were naturally resilient. More than a decade into the social media revolution, the American public is waking up to the idea that the tech sector’s intentions might not be as pure as advertised. The mountains of money being made off our browsing habits and purchase histories are used to fund ever-more extravagant and utopian projects that, by their very natures, will corrode the foundations of free society, leaving us all helpless and digitally enslaved to an elite crew of ultra-sophisticated tech geniuses. But it’s not too late to turn the tide. There’s still time for Gen X to write its own future. A spirited defense of free speech, eye contact, and the virtues of patience, Zero Hour for Gen X is a cultural history of the last 35 years, an analysis of the current social and historical moment, and a generational call to arms.
Author |
: Robert C. Sickels |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2024-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793655851 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793655855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far) by : Robert C. Sickels
While the work of Sofia Coppola is sometimes dismissed as being stereotypically feminine and placing more focus on spectacle over substance, Sofia Coppola and Generation X (So Far): Anxious and Effervescent draws attention to common characteristics present in Coppola’s films to present an authorial signature and aesthetic that are both familiar yet evocative of Generation X’s perception in the public consciousness. In analyzing Coppola’s films from The Virgin Suicides (1999) to Priscilla (2023), this book argues that her filmography acts as a reflection of her generation’s evolving mindset and self-image from its initial rise to prominence during the late 1980s to its current sentiment of discomfort with its fading influence.
Author |
: Robert Samuels |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 117 |
Release |
: 2021-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793642356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793642354 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject by : Robert Samuels
Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject defines Gen X as the first generation to be dominated by entertainment subjectivity. A social and psychological feedback loop is created as entertainment caters to adolescent consumers while the consumer, in turn, is shaped by the entertainment they internalize. While the paradigmatic latchkey young adults are immersed in media consumption, they see the world through the lens of popular culture products that seek to capitalize on the free time and disposable income of the unoccupied viewer. This book argues that Gen X entertainment subjectivity lays the foundations for contemporary society where handheld devices and other technologies detach their users from the world around them.
Author |
: Ahmet Atay |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
Release |
: 2023-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781666930665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1666930660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Millennials and Gen Z in Media and Popular Culture by : Ahmet Atay
Millennials and Gen Z in Popular Culture examines media and popular culture forms for and about millennials and Generation Z. In this collection, contributors articulate the need for studying cultural artifacts connected to members of these generations. Rather than focusing on each generation specifically, this collection takes an intergenerational approach, placing them in dialogue with one another by focusing on media and experiences that are geared toward both. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.