Culture and consumption II : markets, meaning, and brand management / Grant McCracken.

By: Publication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press ; Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], 2005.Description: x, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0253345669 (hbk.) :
  • 025321761X (pbk.) :
  • 9780253345660
  • 9780253217615
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22
LOC classification:
  • HC79.C6 M384 2005
Contents:
Living in the material world -- On Oprah -- The Drew Bledsoe paradox: the mysterious home economics of Homo econmicus -- Homeyness: a cultural account of one constellation of consumer goods and meanings -- Calling grease -- When cars could fly: Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and 1954 Buick -- Marilyn Monroe, inventor of blondness -- Who is the celebrity endorser? cultural foundation of the endorsement process -- The strange power of Uncle Meyer's wallet -- Culture and culture at the Royal Ontario Museum -- Taking Madison avenue by storm -- Advertising : meaning versus information -- Sarah Zupko, meet Mrs. Woolworth -- Meaning-management : an anthropological approach to the creation of value.
List(s) this item appears in: BA/MA Visual Arts - Theoretical Studies
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-220) and index.

Living in the material world -- On Oprah -- The Drew Bledsoe paradox: the mysterious home economics of Homo econmicus -- Homeyness: a cultural account of one constellation of consumer goods and meanings -- Calling grease -- When cars could fly: Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and 1954 Buick -- Marilyn Monroe, inventor of blondness -- Who is the celebrity endorser? cultural foundation of the endorsement process -- The strange power of Uncle Meyer's wallet -- Culture and culture at the Royal Ontario Museum -- Taking Madison avenue by storm -- Advertising : meaning versus information -- Sarah Zupko, meet Mrs. Woolworth -- Meaning-management : an anthropological approach to the creation of value.

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