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This text addresses the question of how dinosaurs moved from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection, exploring the animal's place in our lives and the source of its popular appeal. In tracing the cultural family tree of the dinosaur there is discovered a creature of striking flexibility, linked to dragons and mammoths, skyscrapers and steam engines, cowboys and Indians. Here the dinosaur becomes a cultural symbol whose plurality of meaning and often contradictory nature is emblematic of modern society itself. As a scientific entity, the dinosaur endured a near-eclipse for over a century, but as an image it is enjoying its widest circulation. The text suggests it endures because it is uniquely malleable, a figure of both innovation and obsolescence, massive power and pathetic failure - the totem animal of modernity.
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The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
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The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 2nd Edition. This copy is an Ex-Library book with the usual stamps and markings. Pale blue covers with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is tight. Spine is straight. Corners are sharp. Content is clean, No markings. Includes: Contents, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Color & B/W Photographs. Dust jacket has a mylar protection and is taped to the covers. 329 p. N° de réf. du vendeur 42482
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The Last Dinosaur Book: the Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
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University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998
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ISBN 13 : 9780226532042
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Hardcover. First Edition. pp. 321. Royal 8vo. Publisher's light-blue cloth over boards, bronze lettering to the spine. Richly illustrated in black-and-white, and colour throughout. Entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked extremities, and contents; fine and housed in near fine lightly rubbed dustjacket (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good+, to, near fine. "For animals that have been dead millions of years, dinosaurs are extraordinarily pervasive in our everyday lives. Appearing in ads, books, movies, museums, television, toy stores, and novels, they continually fascinate both adults and children. How did they move from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection? What is the source of their powerful appeal? Until now, no one has addressed this question in a comprehensive way. In this lively and engrossing exploration of the animal's place in our lives, W.J.T. Mitchell shows why we are so attached to the myth and the reality of the "terrible lizards." Mitchell aims to trace the cultural family tree of the dinosaur, and what he discovers is a creature of striking flexibility, linked to dragons and mammoths, skyscrapers and steam engines, cowboys and Indians. In the vast territory between the cunning predators of Jurassic Park and the mawkishly sweet Barney, from political leviathans to corporate icons, from paleontology to Barnum and Bailey, Mitchell finds a cultural symbol whose plurality of meaning and often contradictory nature is emblematic of modern society itself. As a scientific entity, the dinosaur endured a near-eclipse for over a century, but as an image it is enjoying its widest circulation. And it endures, according to Mitchell, because it is uniquely malleable, a figure of both innovation and obsolescence, massive power and pathetic failurethe totem animal of modernity. Drawing unforeseen and unusual connections at every turn between dinosaurs real and imagined, The Last Dinosaur Book is the first to delve so deeply, so insightfully, and so enjoyably into our modern dino-obsession.". N° de réf. du vendeur 5306
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University of Chicago Press, 1998
ISBN 10 : 0226532046
ISBN 13 : 9780226532042
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