The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness / / edited by Jen Boyle, Wan-Chuan Kao.
Annotation Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to ¿cute¿ in the sense of ¿attractive, pretty, charming¿ to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cuteness of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Goleta : : punctum books,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Time of the Child / Wan-Chuan Kao and Jen BoyleTorturer-Cute / Andrea Denny-Brown Indulgence and Refusal: Cuteness, Asceticism, and the Aestheticization of Desire / Elizabeth Howie From "Awe" to "Awww": Cuteness and the Idea of the Holy in Christian Commodity Culture / Claire Maria Chambers "All The Pretty Little Ponies": Bronies, Desire, and Cuteness / Justin Mullis Consuming Celebrity: Commodities and Cuteness in the Circulation of Master William Henry West Betty / Marlis Schweitzer Embracing the Gremlin: Judas Iscariot and the (Anti- )Cuteness of Despair / Mariah Junglan Min Cute, Charming, Dangerous: Child Avatars in Second Life / Alicia Corts What's Cute Got to Do with It?: Early Modern Proto-Cuteness in King Lear / James M. Cochran Hamlet, Hesperides, and the Discursivity of Cuteness / Kara Watts Cute Lacerations in Doctor Faustus and Omkara / Tripthi PillaiKatie Sokoler, Your Construction Paper Tears Can't Hide Your Yayoi Kusama-Neurotic Underbelly / Kelly Lloyd.