Gen X at middle age in popular culture
In: Generation X: studies in culture, demographics, and media representation
Introduction: Gen X "brings it" to adulthood / Pamela W. Hollander -- Cobra Kai: Flipping the script and finding intergenerational balance / Jim Deys -- The countercultural legacy of Generation X in Twin Peaks / Damon Franke -- So different yet so similar: Two Black Generation X professors discuss life at the half-century mark / Elwood Watson and Zebulon Vance Miletsky -- The revisionist 3Rs: Revolutionize your revolutions around the sun / Sarah Parker -- The new adult: A media comparison of generation X, millennials, and Generation Z / Lee Okan -- From latchkey kid to granny nanny: How Generation X shaped the Modern Family / Melissa Vosen Callens -- Crimes of trust: Middle-aged Gen Xers in Ozark Marty Rapp -- "I didn't feel a thing": The Generation X trauma and alternative families in My Golden Days / Helena Gurfinkel -- The aging dilemma in Forever: Generation X asks what it means to live / Kellie Deys.