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Authors: Sammy R. Danna
ISBN-13: 9780879725273, ISBN-10: 0879725273
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: June 1992
Edition: 1
Advertising and marketing scholars offer some of their most instructive, stimulating, and entertaining works on subliminal perceptions in advertising; nineteenth-century trade cards; T-shirt messages; advertising in the twenty-first century; and the changing male image in advertising.
Introduction | ||
1 | Advertising Is Everywhere | 1 |
Conventional and Alternative Advertising Media: Two Views, Two Purposes | 3 | |
2 | Subliminal Perception and Other Comment and Crititism in Advertising | 22 |
A Critique of Advertising: Stuart Chase on the "Godfather of Waste" | 23 | |
Postum, Post Toasties and Patriotism | 29 | |
Images of Yuppies in Popular Advertisements of the 1980s | 47 | |
Subliminal Seduction: Real or Imagined? | 56 | |
3 | Unusual Advertising Forms and Uses | 63 |
Advertising Trade Cards: Nineteenth Century Showcases | 64 | |
T-Shirt Messages: Fortune or Folly for Advertisers? | 73 | |
Mona Lisa Meets Madison Avenue: Advertising Spoofs of A Cultural Icon | 83 | |
4 | Specialized Advertising Forms and Applications | 93 |
The Serialized Mini-Drama: A New Trend in Advertising | 94 | |
Trends for the Twenty-First Century: The Senior Boom | 103 | |
Language and Perfume: A Study of Symbol-Formation | 109 | |
Humor in Advertising: It's Funny Business | 115 | |
The Golliwog: Innocent Doll to Symbol of Racism | 124 | |
5 | Gender and Advertising | 133 |
The Existence and Effectiveness of Sexual Content in Advertising | 134 | |
Male Parent Images in Advertising | 141 | |
Changing Male Image in Advertising: An Investigation | 146 | |
Contributors | 160 |