AuthorBotz-Bornstein, Thorsten
TitleThe 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?


SUBJECT

  1. Aesthetics
  2. Popular culture -- Japan
  3. Japan -- Civilization -- 21st century
  4. Japan -- Civilization -- American influences

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Arts LibraryBH301.M54 B751C 2011 CHECK SHELVES