The Cultural Career of Coolness
Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan
Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term cool? When has coolness come to be associated with certain modes of contemporary self-fashioning? On what grounds do certain nations claim a privilege to be recognized as cool? These are some of the questions that served as a starting-point for a comparative cultural inquiry which brought together specialists from American Studies and Japanese Studi…
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Weitere Autoren: Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (Hrsg.) / Gersdorf, Catrin (Hrsg.) / Giannoulis, Elena (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7391-7317-6
- EAN: 9780739173176
- Produktnummer: 23053724
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 480 KB
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Edited by Ulla Haselstein; Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit; Catrin Gersdorf and Elena Giannoulis - Contributions by ...
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