The Cute and the Cool
Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture
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Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7390316M
- ISBN-139780195156669
- ISBN-100195156668
- OCLC Control Number52214716
- OCLC Control Numbercutecoolwondrous00cros
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003053089
- LibraryThing537015
- Goodreads1129084
Classifications
- LCCHQ783.C74 2004
Description
The cute child - spunky, yet dependent, naughty but nice - is largely a 20th-century invention. In this book, Gary Cross examines how that look emerged in American popular culture and how the cute turned into the cool, seemingly its opposite, in stories and games.
First Sentence
When my son Alex was three years old and on vacation at his grandparents' lakeside cottage, four adults (including myself) conspired to trick him into believing that pirates had stolen his grandmother's jewels.
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