Consumer Society Reader

Name: Consumer Society Reader
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ISBN: 9781565845985

ISBN-10: 1565845986

ISBN-13: 9781565845985

Edition: 2000

Authors: Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 502
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.20" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




The Consumer Society Critique



The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception




The Dependence Effect




The Sexual Sell




... Images Without Bottom ...




The Social Organization of Symbols



The Ideological Genesis of Needs




Advertising in the Age of Accelerated Meaning




Hunger as Ideology




Consumption and Lived Experience



Object as Image: The Italian Scooter Cycle




Touching Greatness: The Central Midwest Barry Manilow Fan Club




The Act of Reading the Romance: Escape and Instruction




Consumption and Social Inequality



Conspicuous Consumption




The Aesthetic Sense as the Sense of Distinction




Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption?




False Connections




Toy Theory: Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference




The Liberatory Dimensions of Consumer Society



Two Cheers for Materialism




Feminism and Fashion




Shopping for Pleasure: Malls, Power, and Resistance




The Tendency of Capitalism to Commodify



The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret




Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance




The Coolhunt




Advertising as Cultural Criticism: Bill Bernbach versus the Mass Society




New Critiques of Consumer Society



Voluntary Simplicity and the New Global Challenge




Culture Jamming




A New Kind of Rag Trade?




Towards a New Politics of Consumption




Why Consumption Matters




Ecology and New Work: Excess Consumption and the Job System



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