The cute and the cool : wondrous innocence and modern American children's culture

The cute and the cool : wondrous innocence and modern American children's culture / Gary Cross.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cross, Gary S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Children > United States > History.
Children in popular culture.
Toys > Social aspects > United States.
Parenting > United States > History.
Children > United States > Caricatures and cartoons.
Innocence (Psychology)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Child Development.
Children
Parenting
Children in popular culture
Toys > Social aspects
United States
Electronic books.
Caricatures and cartoons
History
Cartoons (Humor)
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Table of Contents:
  • The irony of innocence
  • The two faces of innocence
  • The cute kid : images of a wondrous childhood
  • Holidays and new rituals of innocence
  • Gremlin child : how the cute became the cool
  • Setting the boundaries of innocence
  • Rethinking innocence.

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