Last Dinosaur Book

Name: Last Dinosaur Book
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226532042
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The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon

Автор: W. J. T. Mitchell

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This text addresses the question of how dinosaurs moved from natural extinction to pop culture resur...

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Автор

W. J. T. Mitchell

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1998

страници

336

EAN

9780226532042

ISBN

0226532046

Enbook ID

04547509

Издател

University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

1060

Размери

175 x 260 x 30

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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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