04617nam 22007215 450 99658204600331620230124192805.01-4798-4110-21-4798-0629-310.18574/9781479806294(CKB)3710000000261315(EBL)1821004(SSID)ssj0001349661(PQKBManifestationID)12491103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001349661(PQKBWorkID)11403082(PQKB)10657177(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326431(MiAaPQ)EBC1821004(OCoLC)893682193(MdBmJHUP)muse37378(DE-B1597)547201(DE-B1597)9781479806294(DE-B1597)679295(DE-B1597)9781479841103(EXLCZ)99371000000026131520200723h20142014 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrChronic Youth Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation /Julie Passanante ElmanNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (256 p.)NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis ;4Description based upon print version of record.1-4798-1822-4 1-4798-4142-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction. From rebel to patient --1. Medicine is magical and magical is art: liberation and overcoming in the boy in the plastic bubble --2. After school special education: sex, tolerance, and rehabilitative television --3. Cryin’ and dyin’ in the age of aliteracy romancing teen sick-lit --4. Crazy by design: Neuroparenting and crisis in the decade of the brain --Conclusion. Susceptible citizens in the age of wiihabilitation --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the authorThe teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brinkof success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site ofpop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youthtraces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normativeorder have been negotiated and contained. Examining television, popular novels, science journalism, newmedia, and public policy, Julie Passanante Elman shows how the teenager becamea cultural touchstone for shifting notions of able-bodiedness,heteronormativity, and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century. By the late1970s, media industries as well as policymakers began developing new problem-driven‘edutainment’ prominently featuring narratives of disability—from theimmunocompromised The Boy in the Plastic Bubble to ABC’s After SchoolSpecials and teen sick-lit. Although this conjoining of disabilityand adolescence began as a storytelling convention, disability became much morethan a metaphor as the process of medicalizing adolescence intensified by the1990s, with parenting books containing neuro-scientific warnings about theincomplete and volatile “teen brain.” Undertaking a cultural history of youththat combines disability, queer, feminist, and comparative media studies, Elmanoffers a provocative new account of how American cultural producers,policymakers, and medical professionals have mobilized discourses of disabilityto cast adolescence as a treatable “condition.” By tracing the teen’s unevenpassage from postwar rebel to 21st century patient, Chronic Youth showshow teenagers became a lynchpin for a culture of perpetual rehabilitation andneoliberal governmentality.NYU series in social and cultural analysis.YouthUnited StatesConduct of lifeAt-risk youthUnited StatesTeenagersUnited StatesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender StudiesbisacshLAW / Media & the LawbisacshYouthConduct of life.At-risk youthTeenagersSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.LAW / Media & the Law.305.2350973LAW096000SOC032000bisacshElman Julie Passananteauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1725379DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996582046003316Chronic Youth4128384UNISA