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&...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Auszeichnungen: | Society for the History of Technology Sidney Edelstein Prize, 1996. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-380) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585206937 9780585206936 0813555078 9780813555072 |
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| spelling | Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqbgHh8JYB94FHdbp4Qbd http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79068719 American plastic : a cultural history / Jeffrey L. Meikle. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1995] ©1995 1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-380) and index. 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. Celluloid: from imitation to innovation -- Bakelite: defining an artificial material -- Vision and reality in the plastic age -- An industry takes shape -- Nylon: domesticating a new synthetic -- Growing pains: the conversion to postwar -- Design in plastic: from durable to disposable -- Material doubts and plastic fallout -- Beyond plastic: the culture of synthesis. Society for the History of Technology Sidney Edelstein Prize, 1996. Print version record. English. Plastics History. Plastics industry and trade United States History. Matières plastiques Histoire. Matières plastiques Industrie États-Unis Histoire. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Social Aspects. bisacsh Plastics fast Plastics industry and trade fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Electronic books. History fast has work: American plastic (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCH8bqt4XWXv4Q7mK76T6jy https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949- American plastic. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1995 081352234X (DLC) 95015187 (OCoLC)32389743 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21112 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949- American plastic : a cultural history / Celluloid: from imitation to innovation -- Bakelite: defining an artificial material -- Vision and reality in the plastic age -- An industry takes shape -- Nylon: domesticating a new synthetic -- Growing pains: the conversion to postwar -- Design in plastic: from durable to disposable -- Material doubts and plastic fallout -- Beyond plastic: the culture of synthesis. Plastics History. Plastics industry and trade United States History. Matières plastiques Histoire. Matières plastiques Industrie États-Unis Histoire. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Social Aspects. bisacsh Plastics fast Plastics industry and trade fast |
| title | American plastic : a cultural history / |
| title_auth | American plastic : a cultural history / |
| title_exact_search | American plastic : a cultural history / |
| title_full | American plastic : a cultural history / Jeffrey L. Meikle. |
| title_fullStr | American plastic : a cultural history / Jeffrey L. Meikle. |
| title_full_unstemmed | American plastic : a cultural history / Jeffrey L. Meikle. |
| title_short | American plastic : |
| title_sort | american plastic a cultural history |
| title_sub | a cultural history / |
| topic | Plastics History. Plastics industry and trade United States History. Matières plastiques Histoire. Matières plastiques Industrie États-Unis Histoire. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Social Aspects. bisacsh Plastics fast Plastics industry and trade fast |
| topic_facet | Plastics History. Plastics industry and trade United States History. Matières plastiques Histoire. Matières plastiques Industrie États-Unis Histoire. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Social Aspects. Plastics Plastics industry and trade United States Electronic books. History |
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