New Book Recommendation: Popular Appeal: Books and Films in Contemporary Youth Culture

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 An eBook title of interest is: Popular Appeal: Books and Films in Contemporary Youth Culture by Sharyn Pearce, Vivienne Muller and Lesley Hawkes.

An extract from the publisher's website states:
Now is an opportune moment to consider the shifts in youth and popular culture that are signalled by texts that are being read and viewed by young people. This book draws on a range of international texts to address these issues, and to examine the ways in which key popular genres in the contemporary market for young people are being re-defined and re-positioned in the light of urgent questions about the environment, identity, one’s place in the world, and the fragile nature of the world itself.