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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777880403321

Autore

Ewen Stuart

Titolo

Channels of desire [[electronic resource] ] : mass images and the shaping of American consciousness / / Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : McGraw-Hill, 1992

ISBN

0-8166-8354-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EwenElizabeth

Disciplina

302.230973

Soggetti

Advertising - Social aspects - United States - History

Consumers - United States - History

Popular culture - United States

National characteristics, American - History

Fashion - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgments; Prologue: In the Shadow of the Image; 1. The Bribe of Frankenstein; 2. Consumption as a Way of Life; 3. City Lights: Immigrant Women and the Rise of the Movies; 4. Fashion and Democracy; 5. Shadows on the Wall; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen offer a telling examination of the rise of mass-produced imagery in the United States, tracing the pivotal role that such images played in the genesis and development of the American imagination. Beginning with the rise of the machine and the emergence of consumerism as a common way of life, the authors lay a strong foundation for an understanding of the twentieth-century American media culture. Spanning a wide range of fascinating subjects-movies, fashion, tabloid journalism-Ewen and Ewen offer forceful insights into the mechanisms that link alluring images and