The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0195156668
- ISBN-13
- 9780195156669
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 259
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Gary S. Cross
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.
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