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An edition of American Plastic (1995)

American plastic

a cultural history

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  • 5 Want to read

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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Rutgers University Press
Language
English
Pages
403

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Subjects

History, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics -- History, Popular culture, New York Times reviewed

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United States
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Cover of: American Plastic
American Plastic: A Cultural History
November 1997, Rutgers University Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: American Plastic
American Plastic: A Cultural History
January 1997, Diane Pub Co
Paperback in English
Cover of: American plastic
American plastic: a cultural history
1995, Rutgers University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-380) and index.

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New Brunswick, N.J

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Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/3
Library of Congress
TP1117 .M45 1995, TP1117.M45 1995

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Pagination
xiv, 403 p. :
Number of pages
403

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OL783191M
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americanplasticc00meik
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081352234X, 0813522358
LCCN
95015187
OCLC/WorldCat
32389743
Library Thing
92355
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829895
829896

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