The cool-kawaii
Subtitle: Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernity
By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739148457
Subjects: Popular culture; Civilization; American influences; Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cool and kawaii; title: New world modernity; title: Aspects of cuteness; title: Cross gender tendencies in cool and kawaii; title: Coolness between virtue ethics and aesthetics; title: The temptation of kitsch; title: Kitsch in Japan: tradition and modernity; title: Cool and dandyism: two words; title: one concept; title: Dandyism, consumer society, and virtual reality; title: Conclusion: a dialectics of cool and kawaii?