The aesthetics and affects of cuteness. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joshua Paul Dale, Joyce Goggin, Julia Leyda, Anthony P. McIntyre, and Diane Negra.
• Editors: Dale, Joshua Paul; Goggin, Joyce, 1959-; Leyda, Julia; McIntyre, Anthony; Negra, Diane, 1966-
• Contents: 1. The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness 2. The Appeal of the Cute Object: Desire, Domestication, and Agency 3. Cuteness and Control in Portal 4. ‘This Baby Sloth will Inspire You to Keep Going’: Capital, Labor, and the Affective Power of Cute Animal Videos 5. ‘I’ll be Dancin’: American Soldiers, Cute YouTube Performances, and the Deployment of Soft Power in the War on Terror 6. Live Cuteness 24/7: Performing Boredom on Animal Live Streams 7. When Awe Turns to Awww…: Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog and the Cute Sublime 8. Cute 21st -Century Post-Fembots 9. Designing Affection: On the Curious Case of Machine-Based Cuteness 10. Soft and Hard: Accessible Masculinity, Celebrity, and Post-Millennial Cuteness 11. Affective Marketing and the Kuteness of Kiddles 12. Kittens, Farms, and Wild Pandas: The Impact of Cuteness in Adult Gamble-Play Media 13. Under the Yolk of Consumption: Re-Envisioning the Cute as Consumable 14. Ted, Wilfred, and the Guys: 21st -Century Masculinities, Raunch Culture, and the Affective Ambivalences of Cuteness
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 155.25; Charm; Childishness; Human-animal relationships; Aesthetics, Modern -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317331308; 9781317331315; 9781317331292; 9781315658520
• Related ISBNs: 9781138998759; 9781138998766
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