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100 1 $aMitchell, W. J. T.$q(William John Thomas),$d1942-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80090194
245 14 $aThe last dinosaur book :$bthe life and times of a cultural icon /$cW.J.T. Mitchell.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1998.
300 $a321 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 298-306) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tReptilicus erectus --$g2.$tBig, Fierce, Extinct --$g3.$tA Stegosaurus Made of Money --$g4.$tThe End of Dinosaurology --$g5.$tThe Last Thunder Horse West of the Mississippi --$g6.$tDinotopia: The Newt World Order --$g7.$tThe Last Dinostory: As Told by Himself --$g8.$tSeeing Saurians --$g9.$tSorting Species --$g10.$tMonsters and Dinomania --$g11.$tBig MacDino --$g12.$tThe Totem Animal of Modernity --$g13.$tThe Way of Dragons --$g14.$tDry Bones --$g15.$tOn the Evolution of Images --$g16.$tThomas Jefferson, Paleontologist --$g17.$tFrames, Skeletons, Constitutions --$g18.$tThe Victorian Dinosaur --$g19.$tComing to America --$g20.$tBones for Darwin's Bulldog --$g21.$tSchizosaur --$g22.$tDinosaurs Moralized --$g23.$tPale-Ontology, or It's Not Easy Being Green --$g24.$tPotlatch and Purity --$g25.$tDiplodocus carnegii --$g26.$tTotems and Bones --$g27.$tIndiana Jones and Barnum Bones --$g28.$tWorlds Well Lost --$g29.$tBringing Down Baby --$g30.$tMiner's Canary or Trojan Horse? --$g31.$tThe Age of Reptiles --
505 80 $g32.$tThe Hundred Story Beast --$g33.$tStructure, Energy, Information --$g34.$tCatastrophe, Entropy, Chaos --$g35.$tThe Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction --$g36.$tCarnosaurs and Consumption --$g37.$tWhy Children Hate Dinosaurs --$g38.$tDinos R Us: Identification and Fantasy --$g39.$tCalvinosaurus: From T. rex to O. Rex --$g40.$tTransitional Objects: From Breast to Brontosaurus --$tPaleoart --$gA.$tScrotum Humanum: The True Name of the Dinosaur --$gB.$tScience and Culture.
520 $aFor animals that have been dead millions of years, dinosaurs are extraordinarily pervasive in our everyday lives. Appearing in ads, books, movies, museums, television, toy stores, and novels, they continually fascinate both adults and children. How did they move from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection? What is the source of their powerful appeal? Until now, no one has addressed this question in a comprehensive way. In this exploration of the animal's place in our lives, W. J. T.
520 8 $aMitchell shows why we are so attached to the myth and the reality of the "terrible lizards.".
520 8 $aDrawing a distinction between Dinosauria, a scientific grouping of extinct land animals, and dinosaurs, the cultural icons, Mitchell traces the family tree of the latter. What he discovers is a creature of striking flexibility, linked to dragons and mammoths, skyscrapers and steam engines, cowboys and Indians.
520 8 $aIn the vast territory between the cunning predators of Jurassic Park and the mawkishly sweet Barney, from political leviathans to corporate icons, from paleontology to Barnum and Bailey, Mitchell finds a cultural symbol whose plurality of meaning and often contradictory nature is emblematic of modern society itself.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109606
650 0 $aDinosaurs$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDinosaur paraphernalia$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSigns and symbols$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
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