[PDF.25xo] The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture

The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture

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 | #1961492 in Books |  2004-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.30 x.90 x9.20l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||22 of 25 people found the following review helpful.| "I believe that children are our future..."|By pnotley@hotmail.com|Gary Cross's book starts out with a painful paradox, and then becomes less subtle and nuanced as it goes on. There is something obsessive with our desire for childhood innocence, there is something unhealthy as we try to find spiritual meaning them by showering them with gifts and ensnaring them in the consum| ||"The strengths of Cross's work are his extended analysis of the rise of the consumer market and his thorough grounding in the details of children's popular culture in the United States since the late nineteenth century. On balance this is a lively, provocativ

The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the proclamation goes, just big kids at heart. And, accordingly, we delight in prolonging and inflating the childhood experiences of our offspring. In images of the naughty but nice B...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture   |  Gary Cross. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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