The cultural career of coolness : discourses and practices of affect control in European antiquity, the United States, and Japan / edited by Ulla Haselstein, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Catrin Gersdorf, and Elena Giannoulis.

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TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780739173176 (electronic bk.)
0739173170 (electronic bk.)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural career of coolnessDDC classification:

302.5/4 23

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BH301.A77 C85 2013eb

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Summary: Today, coolness is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles. The Cultural Career of Coolness explores the history of the term as a metaphor for affect control and aesthetic detachment, charts various cultural practices of coolness in the United States and Japan, and links them to the rationalization of intimate relations and an incorporation of disaffection in modernity.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Today, coolness is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles. The Cultural Career of Coolness explores the history of the term as a metaphor for affect control and aesthetic detachment, charts various cultural practices of coolness in the United States and Japan, and links them to the rationalization of intimate relations and an incorporation of disaffection in modernity.