| Description |
xxiii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Douglas B. Holt and Juliet B. Schor -- The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception / Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- The dependence effect / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The sexual sell / Betty Friedan -- ...Images without bottom... / Stuart Ewen -- The ideological genesis of needs / Jean Baudrillard -- Advertising in the age of accelerated meaning / Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson / Hunger as ideology / Susan Bordo -- Ofject as image: the Italian scooter cycle / Dick Hebdige. |
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Touching greatness: the Central Midwest Barry Manilow Fan Club / Thomas C. O'Guinn -- The act of reading the romance: escape and instruction / Janice A. Radway -- Conspicuous consumption / Thornstein Veblen -- The aesthetic sense as the sense of distinction / Pierre Bourdieu -- Does cultural capital structure American consumption? / Douglas B. Holt -- False connections / Alex Kotlowitz -- Toy theory: black Barbie and the deep play of difference/ Ann DuCille -- Two cheers for materialism / James Twitchell. |
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Towards a new politics of consumption / Juliet B. Schor -- Why consumption matters / Betsy Taylor and Dave Tilford -- Ecology and new work: excess consumption and the job system / Frithjof Bergmann. |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics)
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Consumer behavior.
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| Added Author |
Schor, Juliet.
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Holt, Douglas B.
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| ISBN |
1565845323 hardcover |
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1565845986 paperback |
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