Title The dominion of signs : television, advertising, and other New Zealand fictions / Nick Perry

Published Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 1994

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Description xi, 162 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm Contents Introduction: does the book stop here? --Cinderella and the silver Mercedes: popular culture and the construction of national identity -- Toyota country and Toyota city: urbanism and the representation of community -- Restricted vision: images of Australia in New Zealand television commercials -- Black to the future -- Am I rite? Or am I write? Or am I right? a New Zealand reading of The singing detective -- Flying by nets: the social pattern of New Zealand fiction --Millennial pursuit: from The listener's 'Man Alone' to Theory K's scout troop Notes "Distributed outside New Zealand by Oxford University Press"--T.p. verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-158) and index Subject Advertising -- Social aspects -- New Zealand. New Zealand fiction -- Social aspects. Popular culture -- New Zealand. Television programs -- Social aspects -- New Zealand. SUBJECT New Zealand -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116353 LC no. 94151252 ISBN 186940100X (paperback)

Other Titles Television, advertising, and other New Zealand fictions Television, advertising, and other New Zealand fictions

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