Sean Zwagerman
Journal of Popular Culture , Volume 44, Issue 3 (June 2011), pp. 593-612. Reality Bites
It directly analyzes Reality Bites as a key text representing Generation X, focusing on the film's central tension between authenticity (Lelaina's documentary, Troy's slacker ethos) and commodification (Michael's MTV-style career). It links the film's ironic, disaffected tone to broader socio-economic anxieties of the early 1990s (recession, the end of the Cold War, the rise of corporate culture). Sean Zwagerman Journal of Popular Culture , Volume
Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Post-Millennial America (2016) by Peter Sacks — but more directly: Sean Zwagerman Journal of Popular Culture