Last Dinosaur Book The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon

Name: Last Dinosaur Book The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
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ISBN: 9780226532042

ISBN-10: 0226532046

ISBN-13: 9780226532042

Edition: 1998

Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 329
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.




Reptilicus erectus



Big, Fierce, Extinct



A Stegosaurus Made of Money



The End of Dinosaurology



The Last Thunder Horse West of the Mississippi



Dinotopia: The Newt World Order



The Last Dinostory: As Told by Himself



Seeing Saurians



Sorting Species



Monsters and Dinomania



Big MacDino



The Totem Animal of Modernity



The Way of Dragons



Dry Bones



On the Evolution of Images



Thomas Jefferson, Paleontologist



Frames, Skeletons, Constitutions



The Victorian Dinosaur



Coming to America



Bones for Darwin's Bulldog



Schizosaur



Dinosaurs Moralized



Pale-Ontology, or It's Not Easy Being Green



Potlatch and Purity



Diplodocus carnegii



Totems and Bones



Indiana Jones and Barnum Bones



Worlds Well Lost



Bringing Down Baby



Miner's Canary or Trojan Horse?



The Age of Reptiles



The Hundred Story Beast



Structure, Energy, Information



Catastrophe, Entropy, Chaos



The Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction



Carnosaurs and Consumption



Why Children Hate Dinosaurs



Dinos R Us: Identification and Fantasy



Calvinosaurus: From T. rex to O. Rex



Transitional Objects: From Breast to Brontosaurus Paleoart



Scrotum Humanum



Science and Culture


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index