Advertising myths : the strange half-lives of images and commodities /

Advertising is often portrayed negatively, as corrupting a mythically pure relationship between people and things. In Advertising Myths Anne Cronin argues that it is better understood as a 'matrix of transformation' that performs divisions in the social order and arranges classificatory re...

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Accès en ligne:Electronic book from EBSCO
Auteur principal: Cronin, Anne M., 1967-
Format: eBook
Langue:English
Publié:London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Collection:International library of sociology.
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Table des matières:
  • Images, commodities and compulsions : consumption controversies of the nineteenth century
  • Advertising as site of contestation : criticisms, controversy and regulation
  • Advertising agencies: commercial reproduction and the management of belief
  • Animating images : advertisements, texts, commodities
  • Advertising reconsidered.