An edition of The last dinosaur book (1998)

The last dinosaur book

the life and times of a cultural icon

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An edition of The last dinosaur book (1998)

The last dinosaur book

the life and times of a cultural icon

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For 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.

Mitchell shows why we are so attached to the myth and the reality of the "terrible lizards.".

Drawing 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.

In 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.

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Language
English
Pages
321

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The last dinosaur book: the life and times of a cultural icon
1998, University of Chicago Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-306) and index.

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Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.0973
Library of Congress
E169.Z82 M58 1998, E169.04.M58 1998, E169.04 .M58 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
321 p. :
Number of pages
321

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL356807M
Internet Archive
lastdinosaurbook00mitc
ISBN 10
0226532046
LCCN
98016676
OCLC/WorldCat
98016676, 38842132
Library Thing
1340950
Goodreads
1038628

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