| Description |
xii, 235 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Insights |
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Insights (New York, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Introduction : popular culture : the conditions of control? / Gary Day -- MacDonalds' man meets Reader's Digest / Clive Bloom -- Acid : burning a hole in the present / Helena Blakemore -- Hampton Court revisited : a re-evaluation of the consumer / Andrew Smith -- Henry's paperweight : the banks and TV advertising / Robert M. Chaplin -- "A thing of beauty and a source of wonderment" : ornaments for the home as cultural status markers / Gwyneth Roberts -- Pose for thought : bodybuilding and other matters / Gary Day -- Dialogic society : discourse and subjectivity in British Telecom's "Talkabout" service / Adrian Page -- T-shirts and the coming collapse of capitalism / Paul O'Flinn -- Recipes for success / Michael J. Hayes -- That's entertainment / Gary Day -- Christmas : celebrating the humbug / Norma Wordsworth |
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Museums of fine art and their public / Anthony Crabbe -- American national identity and the structure of myth : images of Reagan / R.J. Ellis |
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War toys / Graham Dawson -- Family affairs : angst in the age of mechanical reproduction / Shelagh Young -- Is the micro macho? : a critique of the fictions of advertising / Mary Knight -- Pleasure and danger, sex and death : reading true crime monthlies / Deborah Cameron -- A second byte of the apple / Gill Simpson -- Illiberal thoughts on "page 3" / Bob Brecher -- The golden age of cricket / John Simons -- Bertolt Brecht and football, or playwright versus playmaker / Barry Emslie -- The woman's realm : history repeats itself on the women's page / Ann Treneman -- G-men to jar wars : conditioning the public / Michael Woodiwiss -- Chaos and order : the New York subway / Richard Bradbury -- "And where did you see Star Wars?" : cinema going in Britain / Lez Cooke |
| Notes |
(Insights) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Consumer behavior -- History -- 20th century.
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Consumer behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Day, Gary, 1956-
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| LC no. |
89034357 |
| ISBN |
0312035500 |
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