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Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture
商品資訊
ISBN13：9780789015044
出版社：Routledge
作者：Frederick J. Augustyn
出版日：2004/07/31
裝訂：平裝
商品簡介
商品簡介
Keep the information you need on playthings and pop culture at your fingertips!
The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture is an A-to-Z reference guide to the playthings that amused us as children and fascinate us as adults. This enlightening?and entertaining?resource, complete with cross-references, provides easy access to concise but detailed descriptions that place toys and board games in their social and cultural contexts. From action figures to yo-yos, the book is your tour guide through the museum of sought-after collectibles and forgotten treasures that mirror the fads and fashions that helped define pop culture in the United States.
The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture is a historical, yet current, reflection of society’s ever-changing attitudes toward childhood and its cultural touchstones. The book is filled with physical descriptions of each entry, including size, color, and material composition, and the age group most often associated with the item. It also includes biographical sketches of inventors, manufacturers, and distributors? a virtual ?Who’s Who? of the American toy industry, including Milton Bradley, Walt Disney, and Jim Henson. With a brief glimpse through its pages or a lengthy look from cover to cover, you’ll discover (or re-discover) real hero action figures, toys with commercial tie-ins, fast-food promotional giveaways, penny prize package toys, and advertising icons and characters in addition to beloved toys and board games like Etch-a-SketchR, Lincoln LogsR, ColorformsR, YahtzeeR, and Burp Gun, the first toy advertised on nationwide television.
The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture presents easy-to-access and easy-to-read descriptions of such toys as:
The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture is an A-to-Z reference guide to the playthings that amused us as children and fascinate us as adults. This enlightening?and entertaining?resource, complete with cross-references, provides easy access to concise but detailed descriptions that place toys and board games in their social and cultural contexts. From action figures to yo-yos, the book is your tour guide through the museum of sought-after collectibles and forgotten treasures that mirror the fads and fashions that helped define pop culture in the United States.
The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture is a historical, yet current, reflection of society’s ever-changing attitudes toward childhood and its cultural touchstones. The book is filled with physical descriptions of each entry, including size, color, and material composition, and the age group most often associated with the item. It also includes biographical sketches of inventors, manufacturers, and distributors? a virtual ?Who’s Who? of the American toy industry, including Milton Bradley, Walt Disney, and Jim Henson. With a brief glimpse through its pages or a lengthy look from cover to cover, you’ll discover (or re-discover) real hero action figures, toys with commercial tie-ins, fast-food promotional giveaways, penny prize package toys, and advertising icons and characters in addition to beloved toys and board games like Etch-a-SketchR, Lincoln LogsR, ColorformsR, YahtzeeR, and Burp Gun, the first toy advertised on nationwide television.
The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture presents easy-to-access and easy-to-read descriptions of such toys as:
- BarbieR, bendies, and Beanie BabiesR
- MonopolyR, Mr. MachineR, and Mr. Potato Head?
- PezR, Plah-DohR, and Pound PuppiesR
- ScrabbleR, Silly PuttyR, and SlinkyR
- Tiddly WinksR, Tinker ToysR, and Twister?
- LEGOR (Ole Kirk Christiansen)
- Fisher-PriceR (Homer G. Fisher)
- MattelR (Ruth and Elliott Handler)
- Hasbro? (Alan, Merrill, and Stephen Hassenfeld)
- Toys R UsR (Charles Lazarus)
- Parker BrothersR (Edward and George Parker)
- F.A.O. Schwartz (Frederick Schwartz)
- KennerR (Albert Steiner)
- TonkaR (Russell L. Wenkstern)
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