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020			_a0195156668
020			_a9780195156669
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050	0	0	_aHQ783 _b.C74 2004
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100	1		_aCross, Gary S., _eauthor. _91034002
245	1	4	_aThe cute and the cool : _bwondrous innocence and modern American children's culture / _cGary Cross.
264		1	_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2004.
300			_a259 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-243) and index.
505	0	0	_gCh. 1. _tThe Irony of Innocence -- _gCh. 2. _tThe Two Faces of Innocence -- _gCh. 3. _tThe Cute Kid: Images of a Wondrous Childhood -- _gCh. 4. _tHolidays and New Rituals of Innocence -- _gCh. 5. _tGremlin Child: How the Cute Became the Cool -- _gCh. 6. _tSetting the Boundaries of Innocence -- _gCh. 7. _tRethinking Innocence.
520	1		_a"We delight in prolonging and inflating the childhood experiences of our offspring. In images of the naughty but nice Buster Brown and the coquettish but sweet Shirley Temple, Americans at mid-century offered up a fantastic world of treats, toys, and stories, creating a new image of the child as "cute." Holidays such as Christmas and Halloween became blockbuster affairs, vehicles to fuel the bedazzled and wondrous innocence of the adorable child. All this, Gary Cross illustrates, reflected the preoccupations of a more gentle and affluent culture, but it also served to liberate adults from their rational and often tedious worlds of work and responsibility." "But trouble soon entered paradise. The "cute" turned into "cool" as children, following their parental example, embraced the gift of fantasy and unrestrained desire to rebel against the saccharine excesses of wondrous innocence in deliberate pursuit of the anti-cute. Movies, comic books, and video games beckoned to children with the allures of an often violent, sexualized, and increasingly harsh worldview. Unwitting and resistant accomplices to this commercial transformation of childhood, adults sought - over and over again, in repeated and predictable cycles - to rein in these threats in a largely futile jeremiad to preserve the old order. Thus, the cute child - deliberately manufactured and cultivated - has ironically fostered a profoundly troubled ambivalence toward youth and child rearing today." "Expertly weaving his way through the cultural artifacts, commercial currents, and patenting anxieties of the previous century, Gary Cross offers a vibrant and entirely fresh portrait of the forces that have defined American childhood."--BOOK JACKET.
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650		0	_aChildren _zUnited States _vCaricatures and cartoons _9640870
650		0	_aInnocence (Psychology) _9319377
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