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Informationen zum Autor Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. He has authored eight books, edited five books, and written more than 100 articles on mass media industries. Most recently, he is author of the third edition of his textbook Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication and co-editor of the companion volume Key Readings in Media Today: Mass Communication in Contexts, both published by Routledge. Matthew P. McAllister is Associate Professor of Communications at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control and Democracy and co-editor of Comics and Ideology and Film and Comic Books. Klappentext The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader assembles the most important writings on advertising and society. Arranged thematically, these 27 essays will provide readers with the some of the best-known and most provocative writings on the nature, process, and social implications of advertising and consumer culture for society. Zusammenfassung The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader assembles the most important writings on advertising and society. Arranged thematically, these 27 essays will provide readers with the some of the best-known and most provocative writings on the nature, process, and social implications of advertising and consumer culture for society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Thinking Critically About Advertising and Consumer Culture Joseph Turow and Matthew P. McAllister Part One: The Rise of Commercial and Consumer Culture Introduction to Part One. 1. Advertising: The Magic System Raymond Williams 2. The Alien Past: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective Susan Strasser 3. "Educate the Public!" Stuart Ewen Part Two: The Political Economy of Advertising Introduction to Part Two. 4. Televised Consumption: Women, Advertisers and the Early Daytime Television Industry Inger L. Stole 5. Dr. Brandreth Has Gone to Harvard Ben H. Bagdikian 6. Economic Censorship and Free Speech: The Circle of Communication between Advertisers, Media, and Consumers Jef I. Richards and John H. Murphy II 7. The Commodity Flow of U.S. Children’s Television Matthew P., McAllister and J. Matt Giglio Part Three: Creating Advertising Introduction to Part Three. 8. Encoding Advertisements: The Creative Perspective Aidan Kelly, Katrina Lawlor, and Stephanie O’Donohoe 9. Nightmare on Madison Avenue Devin Leonard 10. The Outing of Philip Morris: Advertising Tobacco to Gay Men Elizabeth A. Smith and Ruth E. Malone Part Four: Ads and Globalization Introduction to Part Four. 11. Gender and Advertisements: The Rhetoric of Globalisation Maitrayee Chaudhuri 12. The Construction of Beauty: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women’s Magazine Advertising Katherine Frith, Ping Shaw, and Hong Cheng 13. "Just Do It," But Not on My Planet Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson Part Five: Ads and Cultural Meaning Introduction to Part Five. 14. Reflections and Reviews: An English Teacher Looks at Branding James B. Twitchell 15. Advertising as Capitalist Realism Michael Schudson 16. The Spectacular Consumption of "True" African American Culture: "Whassup" with the Budweiser Guys? Eric King Watts and Mark Orbe 17. Flabless is Fabulous: How Latina and Anglo Women Read and Incorporate the Excessively Thin Body Ideal into Everyday Experience Robyn J. Goodman Part Six: Ads and Politics Introduction to Part Six. 18. Selling Democracy: Consumer Culture and Citizenship in the Wake of September 11 Greg Dickinson 19. Political Advertising in US Presidential Campaigns: Messages, ...
