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008			950404s1995 njua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 95015187
020			_a081352234X (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a0813522358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040			_aCITU LRAC _beng _cDLC _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aTP1117 _b.M45 1995
082	0	0	_a303.483 _220
100	1		_aMeikle, Jeffrey L., _d1949- _eauthor
245	1	0	_aAmerican plastic : _ba cultural history / _cJeffrey L. Meikle.
264		1	_aNew Brunswick, New Jersey : _bRutgers University Press, _c[1995].
264		4	_cc1995.
300			_axiv, 403 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c27 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-380) and index.
505			_aIntroduction : A matter of definition -- 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.
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.
650		0	_aPlastics _xHistory.
650		0	_aPlastics industry and trade _zUnited States _xHistory.
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