Fashioning Italian youth

<i>Fashioning Italian youth</i> examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 1958-75. By looking at visual and written representations of transnational youth trends - like <i>urlatori amici beats</i> and <i>hippies</i> - in Italian teen magazines <i>Musicarelli</i> films and youth-oriented television programmes it investigates changes in the social construction of Italian young people's political generational national ethnic and gender identities. The monograph connects the emergence of youth-oriented transnational trends to the national and global history of young people and explores the dynamics that contributed to the construction of a specifically Italian youth culture in this period.