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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Botz-Bornstein Thorsten"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity / / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Lanham, Md. : , : Lexington Books, , 2011"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"979-82-16-30336-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-283-59952-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613911971"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-7391-4847-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource  (xxviii, 209 pages)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"306.0952"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Aesthetics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Popular culture - Japan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Japan Civilization American influences"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Japan Civilization 21st century"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Cool and Kawaii; 2: New World Modernity; 3: Aspects of Cuteness; 4: Cross Gender Tendencies in Cool and Kawaii; 5: Coolness between Virtue Ethics and Aesthetics; 6: The Temptation of Kitsch; 7: Kitsch in Japan: Tradition and Modernity; 8: Cool and Dandyism: Two Words-One Concept; 9: Dandyism, Consumer Society, and Virtual Reality; Conclusion: A Dialectics of Cool and Kawaii?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes and compares African American cool culture and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute and characterizes them as expressions set against oppressive homogenizations of a technocratic world. The Cool-Kawaii sheds light on the history and development of both cultures in three main ways: First, both emerge from similar historical conditions; second, both are in search of human dignity and liberation, and finally, both kawaii and African American cool establish a new kind of modernity"]