Seeing Through Movies
A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture
Six essays in media criticism show how the movies have come to exert an influence on every aspect of contemporary life from consumerism to military policy.
Mark Crispin Miller se zaměřuje na americká média a jejich reformu. Jeho práce se zabývá hlubším smyslem mediálního sdělení a jeho vlivem na společnost. Miller je známý svým aktivismem za demokratickou reformu médií, který vychází z jeho akademického bádání. Jeho kritický pohled na mediální krajinu nabízí čtenářům nový způsob, jak vnímat informace, které denně konzumují.



A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture
Six essays in media criticism show how the movies have come to exert an influence on every aspect of contemporary life from consumerism to military policy.
A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.
Reprint of a seminal 1928 work from the father of public relations and modern political spin