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From a Culture for Youth to a Culture of Youth: Recent Trends in the Historiography of Western Youth Cultures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

ODED HEILBRONNER
ODED HEILBRONNER*
Affiliation:
Shenkar College of Design, Pernick Building – 12 Anna Frank street, Ramat Gan 52526, Israel; heilbron@mscc.huji.ac.il.
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Contemporary European History , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , November 2008 , pp. 575 - 591
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22 The book's title is taken from that of Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Masculin-Feminin (The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola), and it originated from a conference held in Copenhagen in 2002.