Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale

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Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale

Author(s): Luigi Manca (Editor), Gail W. Pieper (Editor), Alessandra Manca (Editor)

  • Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
  • Publication Date: 10 May 2012
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 296 pages
  • ISBN-10: 073917326X
  • ISBN-13: 9780739173268

Book Description

The study of advertising and its treatment of utopian appeal enhance our understanding of consumer culture. By looking into the advertising page, we also look into consumers’ desires and the process by which these desires are reshaped and rechanneled through images and narratives created solely for the purpose of making a sale.

Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited by Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, and Gail W. Pieper, is a collection of essays which gather a host of academicians from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, psychology, literature, fine arts, history, religious studies, communication, and media studies. Through their expansive disciplinary expertise, the contributors bring unique insights to the analysis of the advertising page. The collection’s cross-disciplinary investigation also examines gender images and narratives which, in the advertising page, are frequently associated with utopian fantasies. The analyses offered in Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising will appeal to any scholar or student engaged in mass media, communication, and the effect of advertising and consumerism on individuals and cultures.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Luigi Manca is professor of communication arts at Benedictine University.

Alessandra Manca is an independent scholar. Her area of research focuses on sociology and gender studies.

Jean-Marie Kauth, PhD, MPH is professor of languages and literature at Benedictine University. She is a member of APHA’s Children’s Environmental Health Committee of the Environment Section and was recently appointed to the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC), a federal advisory committee to the EPA.

Maria Lucia Piga is associate professor of sociology at University of Sassari.

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