The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture - Couverture rigide

Cross, Gary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195156668 ISBN 13 : 9780195156669

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2004

Synopsis

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. Cross shows how adults have created the ideal of the innocent childhood and have used this to project adult needs and frustrations rather than concerns about protecting and nurturing the young -- and how the images, goods, and rituals of childhood have been co-opted by the commercial world. Magazine and TV ads, articles from the popular press, comic strips, movies, radio scripts, childrearing manuals, and government publications support this argument and the book is illustrated with cartoons, toys, ads, and photos.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Author of An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood, and seven other books relating to the history of modern society, Gary Cross is a Distinguished Professor of Modern History at the Pennsylvania State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195156668
• ISBN 13: 9780195156669
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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