A study of a compendium of the following:
- Smurfs
- Bjork, "It's Oh So Quiet"
- Film: Babe: Pig in the City
- The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde
- toadstool mushrooms
- miniature: small pies & muffins, pencils, miniatures taken out of their dollhouse context
- animals: puppies, sleeping babies, baby pandas, koalas, otters, bunnies
- Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey
- Bows & bow ties
- tv show: The Littles
- Fashion: round collars, rolled pants, color!, ruffled bloomers, Mary Jane's, baby doll dresses, suspenders
- Hair: pig tails, the bob
- Film: Fantastic Mr. Fox
- pixies & hobbits
- eco-houses, houses built into the ground
- butt cracks & short stubby hands
- little bowls
- plastic buttons
- baby faced men: Matthew Broderick, Elijah Wood
- cute women: women with short hair, manic pixie dream girl
- Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender
- candy
Course Objectives:
Is cuteness asexual happiness. Elisa Gabbert's post on cuteness here. Is calling something cute condescending. Does cuteness come from darkness. Cute: beauty plus pity. Are people who like cuteness to be trusted. Forced cuteness: dressing kittens in doll's clothing, kittens in mugs. Big people folding small people's laundry. Sesame Street: debate. How come being short is cute. Weigh in: the old man thinks Mia Farrow was cute in Rosemary's Baby. How come southerners are always calling things cute. Texture: wood v. plastic, suits v. dresses, linen v. silk. Animals that reach out to you. Do we all them cute because they can't talk. Any sleeping being, sleeping beings sleeping next to animals. Dogs who show guilt. Debate: leprechauns aren't cute b/c they are all-knowing. Is Tin Tin cute. Aw, reactions to cuteness: document. Anti-cute: children singing Christmas carols. Cultural cuteness: Asian girls, black babies. Cute irony: (Film) The Incredible Shrinking Woman. List: the new childishness. Genitalia v. butts: discuss.
