wondrous innocence and modern American children's culture /
Gary Cross.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
1 online resource (259 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-243) and index.
The irony of innocence -- The two faces of innocence -- The cute kid : images of a wondrous childhood -- Holidays and new rituals of innocence -- Gremlin child : how the cute became the cool -- Setting the boundaries of innocence -- Rethinking innocence.
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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.
Cute and the cool.
0195156668
Children in popular culture.
Children-- United States-- History.
Children-- United States, Caricatures and cartoons.