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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

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Author Biography: Sammy R. Danna

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1Advertising Is Everywhere1
Conventional and Alternative Advertising Media: Two Views, Two Purposes3
2Subliminal Perception and Other Comment and Crititism in Advertising22
A Critique of Advertising: Stuart Chase on the "Godfather of Waste"23
Postum, Post Toasties and Patriotism29
Images of Yuppies in Popular Advertisements of the 1980s47
Subliminal Seduction: Real or Imagined?56
3Unusual Advertising Forms and Uses63
Advertising Trade Cards: Nineteenth Century Showcases64
T-Shirt Messages: Fortune or Folly for Advertisers?73
Mona Lisa Meets Madison Avenue: Advertising Spoofs of A Cultural Icon83
4Specialized Advertising Forms and Applications93
The Serialized Mini-Drama: A New Trend in Advertising94
Trends for the Twenty-First Century: The Senior Boom103
Language and Perfume: A Study of Symbol-Formation109
Humor in Advertising: It's Funny Business115
The Golliwog: Innocent Doll to Symbol of Racism124
5Gender and Advertising133
The Existence and Effectiveness of Sexual Content in Advertising134
Male Parent Images in Advertising141
Changing Male Image in Advertising: An Investigation146
Contributors160

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