An edition of The Cute and the Cool (2004)
The Cute and the Cool
Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture
By Gary Cross
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Publish Date
March 5, 2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA,Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
272
Description:
The cute child - spunky, yet dependent, naughty but nice - is largely a 20th-century invention. In this book, Gary Cross examines how that look emerged in American popular culture and how the cute turned into the cool, seemingly its opposite, in stories and games.