The cultural career of coolness : discourses and practices of affect control in European antiquity, the United States, and Japan /

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Today, coolness is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles. The Cultural Career of Coolness explores the history of the term as a metaphor for affect control and aesthetic detachment, charts various cultural practices of coolness in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haselstein, Ulla (Editor ), Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (Editor ), Gersdorf, Catrin (Editor ), Giannoulis, Elena (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
Temas:
Aesthetics > Social aspects.
Attitude (Psychology) > Social aspects.
Emotions > Social aspects.
Attitude (Psychologie) > Aspect social.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Aesthetics > Social aspects
Civilization
Emotions > Social aspects
Europe > Civilization.
United States > Civilization.
Japan > Civilization.
Europe > Civilisation.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
Japon > Civilisation.
Europe
Japan
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Introduction
  • "Coolness" in Antiquity
  • Emotionally Challenged, Wisely Detached, or Incredibly Cool? On Stoic Apathy
  • Roman Cool
  • American Cool
  • The Cultural Career of Coolness
  • Kinds of Cool: Emotions and the Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionism
  • The Mask of Cool in Postwar Jazz and Film Noir
  • Cool Revenge: Kill Bill and the Female Assassin
  • Japanese Cool
  • Is Japan Cool?
  • "Hot" and "Cold" and "Cool": Toward a Climatology of Japanese Culture
  • Cold Norms and Warm Hearts: On the Conception of Etiquette Rules in Advice Books from Early Modern and Modern Japan
  • Iki: A Japanese Concept of Coolness?
  • The Domestication of the Cool Cat
  • Marketing National and Self Appearances: Cool and Cute in J-Culture
  • Global Cool
  • Cool Capitalism at Work
  • Index
  • About the Authors.

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