American plastic : a cultural history

The Resource American plastic : a cultural history
Label
American plastic : a cultural history
Title remainder
a cultural history
Statement of responsibility
Jeffrey L. Meikle
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
Awards note
Society for the History of Technology Sidney Edelstein Prize, 1996.
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
303.48/3
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
TP1117
LC item number
.M45 1995
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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