The consciously arranged coldness of manners, bodily representations, and characters, as well as of images, texts, and media, is one of the most important cultural techniques of modernity: Coolness. On one hand, coolness can be described as an individual behavioral strategy that seeks to demonstrate power and strength through the control of emotions. Understood as a cultural strategy, this attitude is closely linked to the aesthetic, but it also influences the psycho-social, political, and economic realms. The focus of this volume is on the visual implementations of coolness in the arts and in popular culture.