Hard sell advertising, affluence and transatlantic relations, c. 1951-69

Focusing on advertising's relationship to the mass market housewife, this study shows how advertising promoted new standards of material comfort in the selling of a range of everyday consumer goods and, in the process, generalised a cross-class image of the 'modern housewife' across t...

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Autor principal: Nixon, Sean, 1966- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2013.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in popular culture.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:Focusing on advertising's relationship to the mass market housewife, this study shows how advertising promoted new standards of material comfort in the selling of a range of everyday consumer goods and, in the process, generalised a cross-class image of the 'modern housewife' across the new medium of television. Nixon shows how the practices through which advertising understood and represented the 'modern housewife' and domestic consumption were influenced by American advertising and commercial culture. In doing so, he challenges the way critics and historians have often understood Anglo-Ameri.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9781526111173