American Cool
American Cool
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美国酷
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1994
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P. Stearns
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酷。这一概念具有鲜明的美国特色，几乎渗透到当代美国文化的各个方面。从酷烟和《花生漫画》中的Joe Cool到《西区故事》（Keep Cool, boy）和都市俚语（Be Cool）。)，“酷”的概念以其多种表现形式在我们的词汇中占据了中心位置。这种对酷的痴迷从何而来？维多利亚时代的文化是如何被当下的情感现状所取代的？美式酷从何而来？这些都是彼得·斯特恩斯试图在这本及时而引人入胜的书中回答的问题。“美国酷”广泛关注从20世纪20年代维多利亚主义的衰落到60年代酷文化的固化的过渡时期。除了描述新方向的特征以及它们如何改变或修订早期标准之外，本书还试图解释为什么会发生这种变化。然后，它评估了这种转变的一些结果和长期后果。
Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool? These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occured. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.