The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Imprint
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011
Descript
xxviii, 209 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
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?