Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940
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- Synopsis
- It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and to promise solace for the masses.As American society became more urban, more complex, and more dominated by massive bureaucracies, the old American Dream seemed threatened. Advertisers may only have dimly perceived the profound transformations America was experiencing. However, the advertising they created is a wonderfully graphic record of the underlying assumptions and changing values in American culture. With extensive reference to the popular media—radio broadcasts, confession magazines, and tabloid newspapers—Professor Marchand describes how advertisers manipulated modern art and photography to promote an enduring "consumption ethic."
- Copyright:
- 1985
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 472 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520403659
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780520058859
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/01/23
- Copyrighted By:
- The Regents of the University of
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.