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Field name	Details
Nuova numerazione	74914
Collocazione	UPS BIBL CENTR 39-C-632
Autore	PERRY, F.
Titolo	Keeping it real : tryhards, clones and youth discourses of authentic identity from Hollywood to high school. Parte componente di periodico
Descrizione fisica	pp. 914-931
Nota generale	Estratto da: Journal of youth studies 2015, 18,7-8
Riassunto	Authenticity is a key cultural rubric for youth in the contemporary West. Texts aimed at young people frequently direct viewers to ‘keep it real’, to ‘be themselves’ and to avoid ‘putting up a front’. ‘Being yourself’ is portrayed as a moral achievement, yet also as something subjects should ‘naturally’ be. This article examines how students at an urban high school in Aotearoa/New Zealand conceive of being ‘real’, exploring what they deem to be authentic identity and its expressions. This article considers the students' use of both constructionist ‘surface’ and essentialist ‘depth’ discourses of identity. It examines how the students conceive of authentic identity as both stable and fluid, anchored in bodily experience and produced at the moment of recognition by others. It argues that through the production of the figures of the ‘clone’ and the ‘tryhard’, the students resolve the tension created by their positioning of identity as inseparable from the gaze of others and their view that to live for others is inauthentic. The students distance themselves from the behaviour of these Others, who they conceive as presenting themselves inauthentically. The students' conceptualisation of authenticity and use of the figures of the clone and the tryhard provides impetus for the positioning of authentic identity as performative, produced through its enactment.
Tipo di documento	RICERCA.
Soggetto	IDENTITÀ.
	PERSONALITÀ.
	RELAZIONI SOCIALI.
	SCUOLA SUPERIORE.
	NUOVA ZELANDA.
Ambito	Psicologico
Titolo correlato	Journal of youth studies 2015, 18,7-8.
Accesso online	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2015-26608-007&lang=it&site=ehost-live

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Keeping it real : tryhards, clones and youth discourses of authentic identity from Hollywood to high school.