The cute and the cool : wondrous innocence and modern American children's culture /
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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195348132 0195348133 1280502541 9781280502545 019518548X 9780195185485 1602568766 9781602568761 9780199868254 0199868255 9780190288860 0190288868 |