Goldman, Robert, 1949-

Reading ads socially / Robert Goldman. - xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index.

Subjectivity in a bottle : commodity form and advertising form -- Advertising and the production of commodity-signs -- Mortise and the frame : reification and advertising form -- Legitimation ads : the story of the family and how it saved capitalism from itself -- Envy, desire and power : gender relations and the dialectics of appearance in ads -- Commodity feminism -- This is not an ad -- Levi's 501s and the "knowing wink" : commodity bricolage -- Postmodernism that failed.

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Advertising--Social aspects
Advertising--Social aspects--United States

HF5821. / G58 1992

659.1042