Advertising the American Dream Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940

Name: Advertising the American Dream Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940
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ISBN: 9780520058859

ISBN-10: 0520058852

ISBN-13: 9780520058859

Edition: 1986

Authors: Roland Marchand

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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 Dreamlooks 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…

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/16/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 0.70" wide x 0.99" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English