The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity /
The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes and compares African American cool culture and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute and characterizes them as expressions set against oppressive homogenizations of a technocratic world. The C...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,
[2011]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cool and kawaii
- New world modernity
- Aspects of cuteness
- Cross gender tendencies in cool and kawaii
- Coolness between virtue ethics and aesthetics
- The temptation of kitsch
- Kitsch in Japan: tradition and modernity
- Cool and dandyism: two words--one concept
- Dandyism, consumer society, and virtual reality
- Conclusion: a dialectics of cool and kawaii?