Consuming visions : new essays on the politics of consumption in modern America /

The United States is the quintessential consumer society. This collection of essays brings together a new set of American and European voices from across the disciplinary spectrum of the humanities and social sciences to explore in innovative and challenging ways the "consuming visions" th...

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Andre forfattere: Scroop, Daniel, 1973-
Format: eBog
Sprog:English
Udgivet:Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
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505 0 |a "Where does the local have an end and the nonlocal a beginning?" : the anti-chain store movement, localism, and national identity / Daniel Scroop -- Visions of consumption as ways of understanding / Henrik Bødker -- Caroline Ware and the Office of Price Administration : a case study of consumer politics during the Second World War / Eleanor Capper -- Democracy for a consumer society : commercial speech and the First Amendment, 1938-1976 / Bradley Queen -- The ghetto fabulous aesthetic in contemporary black culture : class and consumption in the Barbershop films / Roopali Mukherjee. 
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520 |a The United States is the quintessential consumer society. This collection of essays brings together a new set of American and European voices from across the disciplinary spectrum of the humanities and social sciences to explore in innovative and challenging ways the "consuming visions" that have informed American political, social, and cultural life in the twentieth century. Ranging in subject matter from the anti-chain store movement that swept across small-town America in the 1920s and 1930s to the "bling" aesthetic in contemporary African American film, these essays explore how questions 
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