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100	1		_aMeikle, Jeffrey L., _d1949- _eauthor. _9407962
245	1	0	_aAmerican plastic : _ba cultural history / _cJeffrey L. Meikle.
264		1	_aNew Brunswick, N.J. : _bRutgers University Press, _c[1995]
264		4	_c©1995
300			_axiv, 403 pages : _billustrations (some colour) ; _c27 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-380) and index.
505	0	0	_tList of Illustrations -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction: A Matter of Definition -- _g1. _tCelluloid: From Imitation to Innovation -- _g2. _tBakelite: Defining an Artificial Material -- _g3. _tVision and Reality in the Plastic Age -- _g4. _tAn Industry Takes Shape -- _g5. _tNylon: Domesticating a New Synthetic -- _g6. _tGrowing Pains: The Conversion to Postwar -- _g7. _tDesign in Plastic: From Durable to Disposable -- _g8. _tMaterial Doubts and Plastic Fallout -- _g9. _tBeyond Plastic: The Culture of Synthesis -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tSources -- _tNotes -- _tIndex.
520			_aJeffrey 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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