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American plastic : a cultural history /
Jeffrey Meikle traces Americans' ambivalent involvement with plastic from Bakelite radios and nylon stockings to Tupperware and polyester suits. He moves easily from the rise of the plastics industry to plastic's symbolic hold on style and the popular imagination. Meikle shows how America&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[1995]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Jeffrey Meikle traces Americans' ambivalent involvement with plastic from Bakelite radios and nylon stockings to Tupperware and polyester suits. He moves easily from the rise of the plastics industry to plastic's symbolic hold on style and the popular imagination. Meikle shows how America's enthusiasm for everything plastic has been complicated by environmental doubts and by the plasticity of postmodern existence. Throughout this witty, compelling history of material and metaphor, Meikle raises crucial issues in science and technology, manufacturing and marketing, design and architecture, and American consumer culture. A provocative conclusion suggests that plastic, endlessly malleable in the face of material desire, merges into the immaterial reality of future electronic media. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Premios: | Society for the History of Technology Sidney Edelstein Prize, 1996. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-380) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585206937 9780585206936 0813555078 9780813555072 |