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- catalog contributor b472472.
- catalog created "c1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "c1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1985.".
- catalog description "1. Apostles of modernity -- Picking up the tempo -- Practical heroics and versatility -- Erasing the Barnum image -- The advertisement becomes "modern" -- Side by side with the consumer -- Three legends in the making -- Selling satisfactions -- 2. Men of the people : the new professionals -- Two routes to professionalism -- Ambassadors of the consumer -- Atypical men, and women -- The agency subculture : courtiers and creators -- Competition, craftsmanship, and cynicism -- Benign deceptions -- 3. Keeping the audience in focus -- Keys to the consumer mind : confessions and tabloids -- The matinee crowd -- The limits of consumer citizenship -- Sizing up the constituency : the feminine masses -- "Oh, what do the simple folk like?" -- "Getting to know them" -- In search of the typical consumer -- Feedback from secondary audiences -- Folk wisdom, uplift, and the irresponsible public.".
- catalog description "4. Abandoning the great genteel hope : from sponsored radio to the funny papers -- Sponsorship only : radio as cultural uplift -- Super-advertising and the specter of saturation -- Interweaving the commercial -- Crooners and commercials : from intrusion to intimacy -- Entertainment triumphs : the descent into the funny papers -- 5. The consumption ethic : strategies of art and style -- Advertising and the color explosion -- Uplifted tastes and borrowed atmospheres -- The mystique of the ensemble -- Modern art and advertising dynamics -- Photography as sincerity -- Art and the consumption ethic -- Progressive obsolescence -- The gospel of the full cereal bowl.".
- catalog description "6. Advertisements as social tableaux -- The concept of a social tableau -- Modern woman as businesswoman : "the little woman, G.P.A." -- Leisure, for what? -- Grotesque moderne -- Anticipations of superwoman : finessing the contradictions of modernity -- The businessman as generic man -- Supporting players -- Social class in advertising tableaux -- Modern maids and atavistic ambitions -- 7. The great parables -- The parable of the first impression -- The parable of the democracy of goods -- The parable of civilization redeemed -- The parable of the captivated child -- Guideposts to a modern "logic of living" -- 8. Visual clichés : fantasies and icons -- Fantasies of domain : the office window and the family circle -- Fantasies of dimension : the future and the eternal village -- Visual clichés as icons.".
- catalog description "9. Advertising in overalls : parables and visual clichés of the depression -- Retrenchment and morale boosting -- The depression as sales argument : some parables revisited -- Parables of the depression : unraised hands and skinny kids -- Depression advertising as a shift in style -- Upstart agencies with that depression touch -- Ballyhoo, organized consumers, and the New Deal -- Medicine man tactics and self-esteem -- Success, advertising men, and the courage quotient -- Economic sunbeams : reassurance and inspiration -- Clenched fists -- 10. The therapeutics of advertising -- Urbanity and complexity : the problem of scale -- Proliferating choices and the vacuum of advice -- Advertising advice and added values -- Toward a new incompetence -- The "re- personalization" of American life -- Finessing the complexities of scale.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 365-418.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 448 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520052536 :".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "c1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "659.1/0973 19".
- catalog subject "Advertising United States History.".
- catalog subject "HF5813.U6 M26 1985".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Apostles of modernity -- Picking up the tempo -- Practical heroics and versatility -- Erasing the Barnum image -- The advertisement becomes "modern" -- Side by side with the consumer -- Three legends in the making -- Selling satisfactions -- 2. Men of the people : the new professionals -- Two routes to professionalism -- Ambassadors of the consumer -- Atypical men, and women -- The agency subculture : courtiers and creators -- Competition, craftsmanship, and cynicism -- Benign deceptions -- 3. Keeping the audience in focus -- Keys to the consumer mind : confessions and tabloids -- The matinee crowd -- The limits of consumer citizenship -- Sizing up the constituency : the feminine masses -- "Oh, what do the simple folk like?" -- "Getting to know them" -- In search of the typical consumer -- Feedback from secondary audiences -- Folk wisdom, uplift, and the irresponsible public.".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. Abandoning the great genteel hope : from sponsored radio to the funny papers -- Sponsorship only : radio as cultural uplift -- Super-advertising and the specter of saturation -- Interweaving the commercial -- Crooners and commercials : from intrusion to intimacy -- Entertainment triumphs : the descent into the funny papers -- 5. The consumption ethic : strategies of art and style -- Advertising and the color explosion -- Uplifted tastes and borrowed atmospheres -- The mystique of the ensemble -- Modern art and advertising dynamics -- Photography as sincerity -- Art and the consumption ethic -- Progressive obsolescence -- The gospel of the full cereal bowl.".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. Advertisements as social tableaux -- The concept of a social tableau -- Modern woman as businesswoman : "the little woman, G.P.A." -- Leisure, for what? -- Grotesque moderne -- Anticipations of superwoman : finessing the contradictions of modernity -- The businessman as generic man -- Supporting players -- Social class in advertising tableaux -- Modern maids and atavistic ambitions -- 7. The great parables -- The parable of the first impression -- The parable of the democracy of goods -- The parable of civilization redeemed -- The parable of the captivated child -- Guideposts to a modern "logic of living" -- 8. Visual clichés : fantasies and icons -- Fantasies of domain : the office window and the family circle -- Fantasies of dimension : the future and the eternal village -- Visual clichés as icons.".
- catalog tableOfContents "9. Advertising in overalls : parables and visual clichés of the depression -- Retrenchment and morale boosting -- The depression as sales argument : some parables revisited -- Parables of the depression : unraised hands and skinny kids -- Depression advertising as a shift in style -- Upstart agencies with that depression touch -- Ballyhoo, organized consumers, and the New Deal -- Medicine man tactics and self-esteem -- Success, advertising men, and the courage quotient -- Economic sunbeams : reassurance and inspiration -- Clenched fists -- 10. The therapeutics of advertising -- Urbanity and complexity : the problem of scale -- Proliferating choices and the vacuum of advice -- Advertising advice and added values -- Toward a new incompetence -- The "re- personalization" of American life -- Finessing the complexities of scale.".
- catalog title "Advertising the American dream : making way for modernity, 1920-1940 / Roland Marchand.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".