The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity / / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
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| Autore: |
Botz-Bornstein Thorsten
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| Titolo: |
The cool-kawaii : Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity / / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md. : , : Lexington Books, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 209 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 306.0952 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aesthetics |
| Popular culture - Japan | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Japan Civilization American influences |
| Japan Civilization 21st century | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The cool-kawaii |
| ISBN: | 1-283-59952-X |
| 9786613911971 | |
| 0-7391-4847-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785774403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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