Bookshelf

| browse books |
books
 

| book details |

Hard sell: Advertising, affluence and transatlantic relations, c. 1951–69

By (author) Sean Nixon

| on special |

normal price: R 816.95

Price: R 775.95


| book description |

Focusing on advertising’s relationship to the mass market housewife, this study shows how advertising promoted new standards of material comfort in the selling of a range of everyday consumer goods and, in the process, generalised a cross-class image of the ‘modern housewife’ across the new medium of television. Nixon shows how the practices through which advertising understood and represented the ‘modern housewife’ and domestic consumption were influenced by American advertising and commercial culture. In doing so, he challenges the way critics and historians have often understood Anglo-American relations, and shows how American influences across a range of areas of advertising practice were not only a source of inspiration, but were also adapted and reworked to speak more effectively to the British consumer. Now available in paperback, Hard sell offers a major new analysis of the techniques of advertising in the decades of post-war affluence and advertising’s relationship to the social changes associated with growing prosperity. -- .

| product details |



Normally shipped | This title will take longer to obtain, and should be delivered in 6-8 weeks
Publisher | Manchester University Press
Published date | 25 Feb 2016
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 331g
ISBN | 978-1-7849-9105-0
Readership Age |
BISAC | social science / media studies


| other options |



Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 1 234.95
Price | R 1 172.95 | on special |



| your trolley |

To view the items in your trolley please sign in.

| sign in |

| specials |

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky
Paperback / softback
384 pages
was: R 385.95
now: R 338.95
Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order

Charles, the latest in robo-butler technology, has accidentally murdered his master.

The Mountain in the Sea: Shortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award

Ray Nayler
Paperback / softback
464 pages
was: R 315.95
now: R 277.95
Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock

David Mitchell meets Arrival in a breathlessly entertaining and awards-shortlised literary thriller exploring men's fraught relationship with nature.

This is How You Lose the Time War: The epic time-travelling love story and Twitter sensation

Amal El-Mohtar
Paperback / softback
208 pages
was: R 385.95
now: R 338.95
Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock

WINNER OF THE HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS: Two time-travelling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters - and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.