Intimate Ephemera by Anna Poletti - ISBN: 9780522855654
Paperback
Investigating the uses of the zine form for life writing, this title examines the recurrent themes in texts circulating in Australian zine culture, including depression, consumerism, popular culture and political identity. It also examines zine culture as a unique community of life writing and reading.

Intimate Ephemera

Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture

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  • Paperback

    232 pages

  • Release Date

    5 May 2008

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Summary

Intimate Ephemera is the first major study of autobiographical writing produced and consumed in a youth subculture. Investigating the uses of the zine form for life writing, it examines the recurrent themes in texts circulating in Australian zine culture, including depression, consumerism, popular culture and political identity.Intimate Ephemera also examines zine culture as a unique community of life writing and reading, where handmade texts circulate in an economy of gifting and exchange ut…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522855654
ISBN-10:0522855652
Author:Anna Poletti
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:232
Release Date:5 May 2008
Weight:400g
Dimensions:211mm x 139mm x 29mm
About The Author

Anna Poletti

Anna Poletti has been involved in do-it-yourself cultural projects since the late 1990s, including managing the National Young Writer’s Festival (2000) and coordinating the This Is Not Art group of festivals (2003) in Newcastle, NSW. She currently lectures in Communications and Writing at Monash University.

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